Word: mille
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Adler's liberal education began at 15 when he discovered Plato while reading John Stuart Mill's Autobiography. In his own autobiography appearing next month, Philosopher at Large (Macmillan; $12.95), a chatty, often charmingly self-deprecating memoir of Adlerian triumphs and misadventures, Adler reports that Mill persuaded him to sample some of Plato's Dialogues...
...sufficient. Hilton Inn right next to airport. Ten within 10 min. Amenities: middling. Standard lounges. Snack bars and coffee shops, two open 24 hr. Excellent Omelette Parlor (omelettes from $2.25). Best restaurant: International Room, attractive, expensive. Eight bars, largest open 7:15 a.m. to 1 a.m. Run-of-the-mill shopping, except for well-stocked bookstore, sourdough-bread booths and flower store that ships California-grown daisies anywhere. Beauty salon (wash and cut, $12), two barbershops with showers ($2.25), saunas ($3.50), clothes pressing ($2 a suit). Animal shelter. Clinic with seven doctors open 24 hr., two fully equipped mini-ambulances...
Most Americans today would probably agree with John Stuart Mill that the only limit on a man's pursuit of happiness should be that his actions must not hurt others. Most citizens do not care what gays do in private (arrests for consensual bedroom activities are exceedingly rare), but draw the line at voicing outright approval, fearing that somehow, some way, the acceptance of homosexuality would hurt society. Not being sure of the possible dangers, Americans prefer to be safe...
Play in Peoria. They also complain that the Western press completely overlooks Third World news of importance to Third World readers-which means that, because Western news organizations dominate the international flow of information, such news often goes unreported. "If a new steel mill is built in Mexico, that fact is very newsworthy in Mexico," says Roger Tatarian, professor of journalism at the University of California's Fresno campus. "It is not necessarily of much interest in Peoria...
...setting is purportedly Chicago, though all of Brecht's locales are exercises in exotic fantasy. The action is centered in Bill Cracker's gin mill. Bill (Christopher Lloyd) is very tough but no match for the Lady in Gray, otherwise known as "the Fly" (Grayson Hall). She masterminds a gang of bank-robbing thugs with monikers like "the Reverend" (John A. Coe), "the Professor" (Robert Weil) and "Mammy" (Benjamin Rayson). They are all kept in line by Dr. Nakamura (Tony Azito), a Fu Manchu look-alike who speaks only in sibilants. Enter a Salvation Army lassie, "Hallelujah...