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This sense of detail is the cornerstone of a distinctive philosophic method to which Wolfson brings, in the words of a colleague, "the instinct of a great detective." In every philosopher, Wolfson contends, there are two important men. In Spinoza, for example, there is Benedictus and Baruch. Benedictus is Spinoza the writer, the explicit man. Baruch, on the other hand, is the implicit Spinoza, the man on whom Benedictus ultimately depends, and through whom he may be understood...
...however radical its decree, the Supreme Court is unlikely to achieve immediate school integration. Where governmental and educational leadership sympathize with the Court, integration can proceed smoothly--as indeed it already has in many border states. But in the Deep South, where leaders are by instinct--or at least by political necessity--hostile to integration, evasion will be the rule for at least four or five years after any "final date" that the Supreme Court lays down for de-segregation. Professor Gordon Allport, who has studied the decline in prejudice that accompanies forced de-segregation in schools and factories, sees...
...impractical, however, because this committee has always concerned itself with investigations of specific economic details. Traditional procedure would inevitably force questions of policy aside. By including members of several committees--finance, expenditures, and economy--in one Joint Committee, perhaps the dissimilarity of methods and practices might restrain the legislative instinct for the insignificant. Of all these proposals, Lipscomb's is most likely to unite the various participants in budget planning in a group which can keep its mind on policy...
Diplomatic Miracle. Since the Tories returned to power in 1951, Eden's stature has grown steadily. He is not a man of power by instinct or by character, and for too long he has lived in the shade of the great Churchillian oak. Eden has had to conquer a painful shyness and a distaste for the rough and tumble of Tory politics. After a typical Eden speech, delivered with its customary earnestness. Winston Churchill once grumped: "My God, he used every cliché in the English language except 'God is love' and 'Gentlemen will please adjust...
...stylist than he likes to admit. Bobbing, weaving, ducking, he is an elusive target; he knows how to fight his way out of trouble with furious flurries. "He has every punch in the book." says his admiring coach, J. T. Owen. "And he has that something extra-that Dempsey instinct. He wants...