Word: hume
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With diffident grace, as "an Oxford man with an uncertain academic record." Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home. 57, the 14th Earl of Home (pronounced Hume), last week accepted an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. "Amid winds of change, he labors with sure lucidity for community among nations." said the citation. In a Harvard speech, in another in Chicago, in private talks with Secretary of State Dean Rusk in Washington, Lord Home was getting across to Americans what the British have already learned to their considerable surprise: in less than a year on the job. Home has emerged as the strongest British...
Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Called "C3H3(NO3)3," which means nitroglycerin, this is the story of a high school teacher (Hume Cronyn) who misplaces some...
This practical reason can only be understood, Blanshard claimed, "if we take off the distorting spectacles of technological advance." Tracing the development of various ethical systems from their Greek and Judaic sources, he noted that a conflict between reason and feeling has constantly plagued philosophy. Clarks versus Shaftesbury, Hume versus Kant, and, more recently, the emotivists and imperativists versus the deontologists--all represent in their ethical controversies a form of the basic reason-feeling conflict...
...Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home (pronounced Hume), occupies a post whose previous incumbents have often been primarily famed for their ability to speak at great length without saying anything at all.* In sharp departure from this cherished British diplomatic tradition. Lord Home, 57, is addicted to clear and candid statements that sometimes border on indiscretion. Last week, just before flying off to Bangkok for the critical SEATO meeting on Laos, Lord Home confided to a Tory meeting some of his thoughts on British foreign policy. Items...
...Fish, Little Fish. Despite a good deal wrong with it, this story of a minor editor who is the life force for a group of skimpy has-beens and pallid never-weres is well worth seeing. With Jason Robards Jr., Hume Cronyn, George Voskovec, George Grizzard and Martin Gabel. Directed by John Gielgud...