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...search for Baruch has meant for Wolfson a search for the connotations of philosophic terms. His method has been to follow out the genealogy of a term in past writers to get at its inner meaning to the philosopher he is studying. From these assembled clues he has built up solutions to complex philosophic problems, while at the same time his method has led him inevitably to wider and wider circles of philosophic inquiry. One thinker has always led him to the next. "You can't isolate," he says, summing up his own experience, "a problem, a person...
...Communist moves in Austria and Yugoslavia meant a considerable retreat from the old Soviet formula of swallowing up satellites and building an ever-expanding Communist front, a long way from 1948, when it was said that the Red army needed only shoes to march to the English Channel...
...year cycle has been closed," cried President Gronchi, "and a new phase is about to open." By the new phase, he meant himself. "I don't think I am being blinded by vanity, but I believe that never before has the Italian Republic been so near the soul of its people as in this moment...
Among the 2,500 Indians who, dumbly surviving, lived at Vicos three years ago, Manuel Cruz, a lean-faced man of 40, was typical. Daylight, for him, meant only work; he had a mild form of tuberculosis, brought up an illiterate son, drank cheap rum at funerals. For the right to keep his ancestral four-acre subsistence plot, he toiled three days a week in the fields of the patron. His superstitious technique for growing his family's food, potatoes, was to "talk to the land...
...Council's action, one of the first to alleviate the city's parking problem, followed a near-fatal apartment house fire in Cambridge on Sunday night which meant over 50 residents fleeing before fire trucks could come close enough to extinguish the blaze...