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Stark says he had little political exposure until he joined Carter's campaign. During his years here, he read Kant and Hegel, "because it ties together the different facets of knowledge," says he acted in a few plays at the Loeb, participated mildly in the anti-war student strike of late '69 and "got a great education...
...wrote, following Kant's distinction of public and private...
...public domain (a misreported vote actually did spur a 5½-hour walk out by New York firemen in November 1973) Smith refracts this municipal mischief into the conflict of two fire-fighting brothers, Tom and Jerry Ritter. Tom is an introspective family man who wonders what Spinoza and Kant would say about union politics. Jerry swings through Manhattan's East Side, spouting Dylan Thomas and Yeats. Both vote against the strike, but only one sticks by his conscience - and his hose...
...Jail was my school," says King. "I came out armed and dangerous. Armed with wisdom and knowledge. I read Aristotle and Homer. I got into Sigmund Freud. That almost blew my mind. I've been taught by Hegel, Kant, Gibran, Fanon and Samuelson. Man, I love Bill Shakespeare. He was some bad dude...
While DuBois had an instinctive reaction against the lily-white composition of Harvard, the distinguished academic community seems to have appealed to him. In his autobiography, Dusk of Dawn, he recalled with fondness discussions of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason with George Santayana, and invitations to the house of William James, a personal friend...