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...radically different from the Catholic view. Where the Catholic theory sees society as equally given with the person, Locke regarded society merely as something for the convenience of the autonomous individual and not inherent in the nature of man. Murray condemns Locke as too much of an individualist to have "any recognizable moral sense" of the rights of man: "There is simply a pattern of power relationships." Still, when pressed, Murray concedes that Locke's natural law is better than no natural law at all, and throughout much of U.S. history, the concept appeared in the courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: City of God & Man | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...since his father's death 11 years earlier. In addition, his family pride and courage had been tested by fire only a few months prior to his registration at Harvard. In the spring of 1919, when the bitter controversy between Lodge and Wilson was at its height, that irascible individualist, Charles Town-send Copeland, paid a visit to Middle-sex. During an address to the entire student body, Copey found occasion to vent his political spleen by observing, "The world would be a better place without the three L's--Lenin, Ludendorff, and Lodge." Throughout the lecture, Cabot managed...

Author: By Mary ELLEN Gale, | Title: Lodge at Harvard: Loyal Conservation 'Who Knew Just What He Wanted to Do. | 11/4/1960 | See Source »

...Prendergast loved bright pageantry, and he filled his paintings with balloons, banners, swans, and outlandish animals that he simply made up. But for all the fun and fantasy, he was breaking new ground. Though he had abandoned the realism that dominated U.S. painting, he was too much of an individualist to fall wholly under the spell of the impressionists. He agreed with Gauguin that form existed not in nature but in the mind, and that form and color had a life of their own quite independent of subject matter. His apparently cluttered pictures were actually delicate mosaics in which color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE GENTLE REBEL | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...typified by false status symbols, development-house suburbia and permanented hairdos, we praise the commonplace, criticize the unusual. Jacqueline Kennedy is a standout, not only for her natural beauty and discerning taste, but for her possession of a lost art in the U.S. today: the art of being an individualist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1960 | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

Boston partisans went wild, but lanky Number 9--the rugged individualist as he was described in pre-game ceremonies--characteristically refused to tip his hat. Ted reappeared in left field at the top of the ninth, but was replaced immediately and trotted off the field to a loud, stand- ing ovation...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, ROBERT K. SMITH | Title: Boston Bids Farewell To Ted, Who Homers In Last Appearance | 9/29/1960 | See Source »

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