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...attack on Holmes is two-fold. First, he questions Holmes's "mixture of over-simplifications concerning the nature of law and truth," and second, his "monumental complacency in regard to the society around him." The second point is mostly a matter of interpretation, but the first deserves exploration. Holmes was a philosophical skeptic and a social Darwinist. To him, there was no such animal as "Truth." To Holmes the philosophical skeptic, "Pleasures are ultimate and in case of difference between on self and another there is nothing to do except in unimportant matters to think...
...horizontals. The space beneath the granite and concrete court and under the elevated walkways is not wasted. In places, the platform level serves as the roof covering for campus classrooms; in others, it shelters ground-level paths from rain, and adjacent outdoor parks, cobblestoned and furnished with old-fashioned fold-up lawn chairs, from wind. There, says Architect Netsch, students can bask and study in balmy weather, as if "loafing in Paris' Luxembourg Gardens...
...time owned 40 per cent of the land and ten of the 52 buildings on the site. It was reasonable to assume that the University would continue to acquire property, taking it off the tax rolls. The Pappas plan would supposedly increase the tax return ten-fold, from $15,000 to $150,000 a year...
...true that he gave his famous lecture, "Acres of Diamonds," 6,000 times and received $8,000,000 for doing so. The really significant fact is, however, that he gave away the $8,000,000 to educate promising young people. Taking as his life's pattern the three-fold emphasis he found in the life of Christ, "preaching, teaching and healing," he helped found an outstanding church, a great university and three hospitals...
What few main-line Republicans suspected when they went along with Goldwater was that the 1964 disaster would end by encouraging the conservative rump instead of shaming it back into the fold. The Democrats, by contrast, have weathered countless crises of North South schizophrenia and myriad lesser spats and have repeatedly proved themselves capable of closing ranks before the voters go to the polls...