Word: firth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even with a more responsive audience, problems will remain. George Rosen is always droll as Finian, a dotty old Irishman who has stolen a crock of leprechaun gold and buried it near Fort Knox, an area he believes conducive to spontaneous generations. Carolyn Firth, his ready, nubile, and willing daughter, is a pretty girl and a charming actress. But neither of them seems quite at home in a brogue; Rosen at times simply deserts Belfast for Brooklyn. And Miss Firth, for all the attractiveness of her voice, shares with many of the other singers a tendency toward inaudibility...
Signing the manifesto were: G. Octo Barnett, research associate; Stanley Cobb '10, Ballard Professor of Neuropathology; Gene W. Dalton, assistant professor of Organizational Behavior; Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion; William H. Forbes '23, lecturer on Physiology; Lester Grinspoon, instructor in Psychiatry...
...There is no question about his greatness," according to Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. In a history of philosophy in the twentieth century, Firth says, Lewis will be ranked along with John Dewey, George Santayana, and Alfred Noyes Whitehead, even though he was a "philosopher's philosopher" unknown to the layman...
...continues to stem from his work in the theory of knowledge. He referred to himself as a "pragmatic conceptualist," and had much in common with Dewey. One of the few recent philosophers to develop a complete theory of knowledge and meaning, his books are still the major texts in Firth's course on "Meaning and Perception...
...Harvard, Lewis is perhaps best remembered for his course on Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." The course was considered a "classic," according to Firth, and anybody who took the course was "never quite the same when he finished...