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...this week on his preparations for the summit, it was familiar turf. He had traveled with White House Aide Michael Deaver on a five-day advance scouting trip of the President's itinerary. Also in the summit party to Europe are four TIME photographers. One of them, David Hume Kennerly, last week shot a cover photograph of the President in his private quarters aboard Air Force One. The luxury jet's departure was delayed five minutes so that Kennerly could complete his photo session. Says he: "I could hear the meter ticking on the world's most...
...33rd President of the U.S. seems, at first blush, an unlikely practitioner of this secretive art. "Give-'em-hell" Harry made plain speaking his trademark; he spared few enemies, in or outside politics. When Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume panned a singing performance by Margaret Truman, the letter sent by her enraged father made headlines. But H.S.T. was not always as impulsive as his public tongue-lashings suggested. Another review by Critic Hume annoyed the President, and he complained in writing to Post Publisher Philip Graham: "Why don't you fire this frustrated old fart and hire...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question of Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example: "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening the essay with: "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually, he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...