Word: hoffer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuesday, November 14 WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Since his TV conversation with Eric Sevareid just two months ago, Eric Hoffer's salty comments on the contemporary scene have been quoted by the President and the man on the street alike. Tonight, a rebroadcast of "Eric Hoffer: The Passionate State of Mind...
...narcism. Buckley's a mental muscle-beacher who can't resist rippling his grey matter to dazzle bystanders. For sheer sophistic jabberwocky and an excruciating reciprocity of cleverness Buckley's ideal Firing Line partner would be Marshall McLuhan. But stack him against self-educated Dockhand Eric Hoffer, the man of passionately simple convictions, and Buckley would do a fast fade from brilliance. Because he evinces about as much commitment and attachment to an ideal as a first-time-out dude rancher does to the horse...
...England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect." Eric Hoffer, the philosopher-longshoreman has a more prosaic but very pragmatic description: "The day-to-day competence of the workingman." He adds: "If I said I was loading ships for Mother America, even during a war, I would be laughed off the docks. In Russia, they can't build an outhouse without...
Recently, White House aides all at once told how much Johnson has always admired Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer (The True Believer). Actually Johnson had never met Hoffer, and nobody had heard him mention his name, but the reason for his sudden enthu siasm was clear. During a TV interview last month, Hoffer predicted L.B.J. would be "the foremost President of the 20th century." Wasting no time, Johnson brought Hoffer to the South Lawn of the White House last week for a chat. "The Trumans and the John sons get things done," Hoffer was overheard assuring the President at one point...
...Hoffer founded the department of printing and graphic arts in the Harvard College Library. Now 69, he has long been secretary of the Fogg Museum...