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Before the grand prize was handed out, there were several secondary awards, and one of them went to Sammy Davis Jr. "Where else could a nice Negro boy meet a nice Swedish girl and then have the whole family turn Jewish?" quipped Sammy, setting the tone for the 30th annual...
Says Yale's Philosophy Professor Paul Weiss: "They were never true eggheads, those tempted by cocktail parties and Government grants. The true intellectual does not even belong in his own group and never has many friends." Robert Hutchins agrees, distinguishing between operators and real intellectuals. "An intellectual is trying...
These overtones of violence and disorder gave all the more meaning to a unique, three-day meeting last week at the New York Hilton Hotel. There, under the auspices of Educator Robert Hutchins' Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, scores of statesmen, diplomats, theologians and philosophers met to...
"Time presses," declared Robert Hutchins in his opening address. "It is time to open a new conversation about the requirements of peace, on a level somewhere between apathy and panic -and this side of the irrelevance of propaganda."
Nonetheless, as the convocation made clear, Pacem in Terris remains-in the words of Robert Hutchins-"one of the most profound and significant documents of our age." What it offers to men facing contemporary risks and realities, said Economist Barbara Ward, is "a glimpse of how the world might look...