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...acerbity, the energy, the passionate demand that his students reach out further to excel-all these were characteristic of one of the nation's most distinguished teachers, Sidney Hook. And it was not an ordinary day at all. Hook had just turned 70 and, after 45 years, he was teaching his last class. For the occasion, he said he would break one of his rules and try to explain his own philosophy. "Though there is no substitute for intelligence, it is not enough," said Hook. "There are human beings who have intelligence but do not have the moral courage...
That envoi was typical of the man who once told a friend, "I've had a wonderful week; I've had a fight every day." Born to poverty in Brooklyn, educated under John Dewey at Columbia, Hook was one of the first college teachers to give an analytic course on Marxism, and his left-wing activities duly brought demands for his dismissal. Over the years he wrote and edited some 35 books (The Hero in History, Education for Modern Man), and he always relished a good argument-particularly an argument against dogmatism or dictatorship. In the mid-1930s...
Newspaper ads and television commercials make it clear that the Name Caller links directly into the switching systems. A user can hook up the device by opening his phone box with a screw driver and connecting a couple of wires. With an IBM electrographic marker, the user records phone numbers on a revolving belt inside the machine in much the same fashion as high school students black out answers to a computerized test. As many as 38 phone numbers can be programmed onto the belt; later, any of these numbers can be changed by erasing the black markings and starting...
...twice been named N.F.L. Coach of the Year during seven successful seasons with the Baltimore Colts. Shula won a lifetime enemy by bolting a five-year contract with Colt Owner Carroll Rosenbloom (who this year swapped his downsliding Colts for the Los Angeles Rams) to snap at the hook Robbie had baited with part ownership. Rosenbloom filed a "tampering" charge with the office of N.F.L. Commissioner Alvin ("Pete") Rozelle, who responded by awarding Baltimore the Dolphins' No. 1 draft choice...
...Busch-Reisinger's Flentrop is outstanding). But the problems of the Frobenius are noticeable: not enough foundation, raucous reeds, and questionable tone-regulation. The site for the instrument was promising, but the organ itself disappointing. It will be here for a long time--the previous instrument, a Hook and Hastings, lasted over 90 years...