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...Without a Star (Universal). "Did yew say INSAHD the haouse?" Kirk Douglas, a new hand on the Triangle spread, is plumb dumfounded. "Wah," he gasps, "it hain't har'ly deesint." A little later he says to his pard he says, "Did yew heah whut thet maan said? INSAHD the haouse!" As they ride out to the ranch. Cowboy Douglas keeps shaking his head, he's that amazed. As soon as they get there, he wants to know, "Whin we gonna see it?" "After lunch," growls Jay C. Flippen, the foreman. After lunch, Douglas busts right...
Today, says Kirk, the ancient notion that teachers are Bearers of the Word, servants only of the Truth, has fallen into disrepute. In place of Truth "derived from apprehension of an order more than natural or material," such scholars as John Dewey and Sidney Hook "early became attached to democracy as an ideal, and in time made democracy into an abstraction and an absolute, for lack of any other...
Destroying Negative. Unfortunately, says Kirk, the fear of any dogma has led to a completely erroneous definition of academic freedom. Such "doctrinaire liberals" as Historian Henry Steele Commager and President Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence "think of the Academy as a place where professors, like the Sophists, talk perpetually of the impossibility of knowing anything with certitude, and the necessity for considering every point of view, and the need for being ever so liberal. These latter gentlemen put me in mind of Bacon's famous line: 'What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay...
...Kirk is no man to deny that the U.S. university has plenty of tormentors from the right, both in and out of Congress. But "whatever constriction of academic freedom may have come to pass in recent years because of timidity about expressing political opinions, this loss is very small in comparison with the diminution of true freedom of the intellect through a deadening but voluntary conformity to pragmatic smugness and the popular shibboleths of the day ... If the Academy is to preserve its liberties ... it must be defended by men loyal to transcendent values...
...executives hardly recognized him when he got back. Tom Watson Jr. had grown up in the Army. His first job was as assistant to Charles Kirk, IBM's vice president in charge of sales. "He had a large desk," says Tom Watson Jr., "and I simply had a chair pulled up at the edge of the desk, alongside him, and saw 90% of what he did." When Kirk was away, Tom Watson Jr. had to make the decisions. He made them so well that when Kirk died suddenly in the summer of 1947, Tom Jr. took over...