Word: philosophere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chess enthusiasts call Master Nimzowitsch philosopher and artist as well as mathematician. Besides his System, he uses shrewd psychological strategy. In his game with Grand Master Rudolf Spielman, the winner of which had a chance to tie Cuban Jose R. Capablanca for first place, he humored his opponent's...
Count Hermann Alexander Keyserling, German philosopher-critic, said in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly: ''Chicago is an amazing thing. It is the one place in the United States where one is actually aware of the presence of ungenerosity, ill-will and malice." Commented Mrs. Robert Patterson Lament, wife...
Liliom, a Budapest barker about to become a father, gets trapped holding up a cashier, commits suicide. Years later, returning to do a good deed on earth, he forgets his purpose, slaps his daughter, now grown up. U. S. audiences relished Liliom's gruff swagger, wept copiously over his wife...
Many an arm-chair philosopher considers modern man a slave of the machine. Not among them is Author Chase.
Dewey. "Greatest U. S. philosopher," exponent of what he calls "empirical naturalism or naturalistic empiricism," Columbia University's Professor John Dewey was voted a life membership in the association, to be conferred on the occasion of his 70th birthday (Oct. 20).