Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sidney Hook will lecture on "Intelligence, Conscience, and the Right to Revolution" today in Burr Lecture Hall B Quest for Being, was published last month, has been professor of Philosophy at New York University since 1922. He is well known as a "pragmatic naturalist," and a philosophizer on education, politics, social conditions, and problems of existence, knowledge, and problems of existence, knowledge, and value...
...presence when she finally decides the direction in which his future greatness lies. Her own occupation is measuring yachts, and she takes a lover who has a particularly impressive craft, only to spurn him with the philosophy that "life, Mr. Rose-above, is a husband hanging from a hook in the closet." The husband's corpse, in the end, falls out of the closet and across the bed where young Jonathan Rosepettle is strangling a seductive baby sitter...
Primarily concerned with the cold war, communism, education, and (in his last book) problems of existence, Sidney Hook also runs a department at NYU. He has been chairman of the Philosophy Department since...
Although a New Yorker for most of his like, Hook travels often on lecture tours but hates to be on the road ("like a captain who hates the sea"). He says that New York offers no special stimulus to him: "I am stimulated wherever I go. A philosopher does not need special external surroundings, although because of my interest in social and political thought, New York interest...
...teacher of undergraduates, then, is o be exciting and to inspire out-of-class study, according to Hook. And the best teachers are not necessarily those who know education. (For instance, Hook's teacher, John Dewey "violated his own rules...