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...thinker who persistently denied that philosophy was simply an armchair pur suit. "If the teachings of a philosopher seem esoteric or divorced from reality," he once said, "it's the fault of the phi losopher." Hocking himself vigorously applied his vision to the realm of pub lic debate. He championed the Arab cause against Israel and criticized the cold-war policy of John Foster Dulles as being too negative. He was unafraid to prophesy: he once predicted that "we shall see in the Orient the rise of a Christianity far outpassing that which we of the West have conceived...
Harvard Board of Overseers, a member of the first White House Conference on Education, and organizer of the National Citizens Commission for the Pub lic Schools-a "kind of symbol of the lay person who has been concerned for the future of education," as Harvard President Nathan Pusey put it at the dedication.* Architecturally, the building's distinction is its flexibility. Such immovable objects as stairs, elevators and ventilating shafts are arranged along the outer walls, leaving unobstructed central floor space on its eight levels so that inner partitions can be shifted at will. A few small outer...
...columns. The structure has tall, tapered concrete columns with exposed brackets that hold precast, prestressed concrete girders. The girders, 7 ft. high by 34 ft. long, will have designs on them to give them scale and to express their purpose as structural members. > The Woodrow Wilson School of Pub lic and International Affairs, at Prince ton, which Yamasaki designed to express "the nobility of public service." The scheme consists of 60 white precast columns, 28 ft. high, which will provide support for the upper floor. This will enable the lower floor to have nonbearing walls, with majestic spaces...
...Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, a friend of the new cardinal since 1948. Musician Hampton, who kissed Cardinal Ritter's ring just after the formal papal announcement of his appointment, had made a special trip with a group of Catholics from Indianapolis, Ritter's former diocese. A onetime Catho lic altar boy who now belongs to no church but considers himself "a good-will ambassador of God," Hampton explained: "Cardinal Ritter's work for integration and in the educational field has given our courts real incentive to help the cause of integration. Before, I thought the world was going...
...interpreter. Then, finding that he was untainted by Nazi ties, they gave him a local-government job. Under American supervision, a new Catholic party was being formed in Bavaria. Joining forces with those who wanted to make it a modern conservative party to include Protestant merchants and Catho lic trade unionists as well as the peasant diehards, Strauss was named secretary-general of the new Christian Social Union...