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...Birds, festations," light etc. phenomena, "psychological mani
Writer-director Clair uses this circular plot to create a series of situations which are not only broadly funny in themselves, but subtly satiric of modern phenomena like assembly lines, time clocks, and politicians. Emphasizing visual humor, A Nous La Liberte deflates these institutions swiftly and economically. And George Auric's musical score, which supplements and sometimes replaces the sparse dialogue, is as delightful as it is appropriate...
Poetry magazines are not very strange phenomena in college communities. But Harvard's youngest, Audience by name, is in some ways unique. It costs a dime and appears every other week. And it has an aim unusual for a literary magazine. Assuming that discussion will bring interest, and perhaps awareness, Audience tries to produce controversy about local poems and poets. The danger in this assumption is clear: noise doesn't always imply knowledge. So far this year, however, Audience has steered a successful path between...
...does not have to be accepted simply on a basis of faith in human honesty." His recommendation: apply Hume's precept with a controlled test before a committee of twelve prominent men, all but one hostile to parapsychology, "so that scientists . . . would be prepared to believe in psi phenomena in preference to believing that the entire committee was dishonest or deluded...
...intellectually precocious childhood, she decided to be an atheist at 13, remained one until she was 21. Later she fell under the spell of Phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, who bucked the relativistic trend in German philosophy by reaffirming the existence of objective truth and of a knowable world, i.e., phenomena. Edith's friends teased her, in rhyme, for thinking only of Husserl while other Austrian girls were dreaming of Busserl (Austrian patois for kiss). At Breslau University and later at Göttingen, she made such a mark with the clarity and precision of her thought that Philosopher Husserl asked...