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Bearded British Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, plumber for polygamy, last week recommended four additional postwar freedoms: free gambling, freer drinking, cafe terraces and Sunday shows. To attract tourists to the Isles, he suggested that Britons "stop treating foreigners as monsters of immorality and freaks of eccentricity. . . . Also we should learn to cook...
Sleet-bearded Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, 51, plumped for polygamy as a solution of his country's preponderance of women (2,000,000 surplus): "I, for example, like the company of different women for different purposes-one to go out to dinner with, another to go to church with, another to cook for me, another to mother me, another to play games with, and another to make love...
...danger zone 200 miles away; it was a wet, cold, angry evening. At an emergency underground studio arrived Expert No. 1: wild-haired Professor Julian Huxley, fresh from the Zoo, where he had been seeing to the safety of tigers. Expert No. 2, Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, clumped in on loud-nailed boots, carrying a vast haversack. Expert No. 3, Commander Archibald Bruce Campbell (retired), glared red-faced at his high-brow colleagues. The first question, propounded by elegant Humorist William Donald McCullough, was "What are the Seven Wonders of the World?" Nobody knew...
Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad of the University of London is by turns persuasive, glib, caustic, profound. In Return to Philosophy, Common Sense Ethics, Mind and Matter and other books, he has furnished, he says, "a restatement in modern terms of certain traditional beliefs." He argues that reason, "properly employed," can arrive at truth. A praiser of times past, he dislikes Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Stravinsky music, surrealist painting, modern advertising. His objection to science appears to be that it does not provide enough digestive pills of wisdom to go with its banquet of knowledge...
Another dignitary who was on hand was Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad of University of London, onetime John Locke Scholar at Oxford, famed moral philosopher (Common Sense Ethics, Common Sense Theology, Mind and Matter, etc.). When newshawks asked him what he thought about the firewalking, Philosopher Joad said he was not prepared to make any observations for less than five guineas...