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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...
WGMS actually serenaded the President long before Paul Hume began serenading presidential hopefuls on our station. While President Eisenhower was recovering from his 1955 heart attack, WGMS piped background music to the President's Walter Reed Hospital room...
Washington Music Critic Paul Hume's ears went red ten years ago when he got some blue language in the mail from the White House: Harry Truman didn't like Hume's musical judgment on Daughter Margaret's singing. That might have taught any other critic that music and politics don't mix. But after all, Washington is a political town. Lately, on his radio program called Guest Conductor, Critic Hume has been airing the favorite melodies of the 1960 candidates. By last week he had all four on record...