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...York City police to express appreciation for protection provided by the cops since the delegation's arrival in November. At home, China's leaders lifted a ban against the sale of some classic books by Western thinkers, creating crowds in Peking bookstores; the writers included Rousseau, Kant-and Adam Smith...
Maxim from Kant. Peter represents Mary McCarthy's first attempt to write from a male point of view and there are moments, especially those involving sex, when she is not wholly successful. When she is stuck, she tends to rely on a rationalization. For instance, it is one thing to say that Peter is obsessed with fair play, but is it really likely that he would have given up masturbation after his mother left his stepfather, "because she was not even going to parties...
...culmination of Kissinger's undergraduate work was a gargantuan 350-page thesis on the work of Spengler, Toynbec, and Kant. Unpretentiously titled "The Meaning of History," its only lasting impact seems to have been that it spurred the Government Department to impose a 150-page limit on the length of senior theses. But it was good enough to be graded summa -a rare thing in those days-and contained some fruitful insights into Kissinger's mind. In a section devoted to Spengler, he wrote that "Instinct is no guide to political conduct. Effective leadership is always forced-whatever its motives...
...EDITH KANT NORTON Alplaus...
...Lumumba Club. "Marcuse had the greatest influence on me through his lectures, his books and as a person," she has said. He was supervising her doctoral dissertation on "the concept of force in Kant's political thinking" at the University of California at San Diego. Says Marcuse: "I consider her the best student I ever had in the more than 30 years I have been teaching...