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For the novelist of religious mind, sin is a pervasive subject. But François Mauriac, a Roman Catholic and one of the most gifted of living French novelists, was pulled up short 23 years ago by the challenge of a friend and fellow Catholic: Was Mauriac's fascination...
Opening the first session in Sanders Theatre Monday night, Professor Jacques Maritain of Princeton maintained that empiricism in philosophy had led to "the complete relativization of moral values, the high-powered narrowing of the human mind, and the disarming of freedom."
This sort of criticism, says Smith, does not come from any single source. It comes partly from such prominent educators as "Robert M. Hutchins, Bernard Iddings Bell, Jacques Barzun, Mark Van Doren, Stringfellow Barr, and the Harvard Committee-all nonfascist sources ... It comes from school people themselves, most of them...
* France's own René Lacoste, one of the French "four musketeers" (the others: Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, Jacques Brugnon) who dominated international tennis 1924-29, was the grandfather of all crocodiles. Recalling one match against Lacoste, Bill Tilden remarked: "The monotonous regularity with which that unsmiling, drab, almost...
>To Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews and Philosopher Jacques Maritain, LL.D.s from Notre Dame.