Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wasn't, or to have someone like the producer tell me he didn't like me. But why should some jerk they dragged in off the street have the right to push a button and say whether or not I should play in the series?" Veteran Producer Herbert (The Defenders) Brodkin wonders: "How you would enjoy a Broadway show if at every moment you were conscious of having to push a button or turn a dial...
Born in Ohio, Hocking took up philosophy at the age of 13, after a reading of Herbert Spencer shattered the Methodist faith he was born to. He taught for seven years at Yale before beginning a 29-year tenure on the Harvard faculty, retiring in 1943. He liked to moonlight from university teaching by lecturing at labor-union schools, because "workingmen don't pull their punches...
Headlined Die Zeit: WILLY BRANDT HAS RETURNED. Exulted a Social Democratic strategist: "Brandt has given the party an issue." In fact, East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht gave the Social Democrats the issue by offering to start the dialogue in the first place. Social Democratic Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner persuaded Brandt, who was cool to the idea at first, to accept. Since then, Brandt has made the cause his own. He conducted the negotiations, indeed decided to lead the debate himself, dramatically announcing that he would even resign his office as mayor and go simply in his nongovernmental capacity...
Hocking studied philosophy at Harvard under the "Philosophical Four"-- Josiah Royce, George Herbert Palmer, William James, and George Santayana-- provided a link to their era. His own creed was once defined as "idealist in the tradition of Royce and pragmatist in the tradition of James...
...agency's enthusiasm-"the beautiful hysteria of it all," as one aide put it-only honed outsiders' skepticism. Hadn't the nation heard this sort of talk before? Hadn't Herbert Hoover, just a year before the great collapse of 1929, proclaimed: "We shall soon, with the help of God, be within sight of the day when poverty will be banished from the nation"? In Louisville and Manhattan, bumper stickers and lapel buttons proclaimed: I'M FIGHTING POVERTY. I WORK. Louisiana Congressman Otto Passman complained that the ballyhoo was damaging the U.S. image abroad, averring...