Word: pragmatist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poet Mark Van Doren: "The issue should not be what a teacher is or believes, but how he teaches ... A Communist who . . . deliberately twists or distorts the truth ... is a bad teacher and should not be kept in his job; but so is a pragmatist, a Christian Scientist, or a Mohammedan who does the same thing...
...Liberal. Most U.S. liberals think of Niebuhr as a solid socialist who has some obscure connection with Union Theological Seminary that does not interfere with his political work. Unlike most clergymen in politics, Dr. Niebuhr is a pragmatist. Says James Loeb, secretary of Americans for Democratic Action: "Most so-called liberals are idealists. They let their hearts run away with their heads...
Died. Henry James, 68, winner of the 1930 Pulitzer prize for biography (Charles W. Eliot), eldest son of Pragmatist-Philosopher William James, nephew and namesake of Author Henry James; of a heart ailment in Manhattan...
Before a packed audience at Manhattan's Horace Mann School, two old men slowly mounted the platform. They had come to deliver eulogies. One was slow-spoken 88-year-old Pragmatist John Dewey. The other was white-haired William H. Kilpatrick, 76, Columbia's fiery ex-professor of education. Both, in their time, had been rebels. They had come to honor a third. Boyd H. Bode (rhymes with soda) had walked in their steps in progressive education, but he was no meek disciple. "Whatever of mine goes through Bode," said John Dewey, "comes out different...
...logic of things is stronger than any other logic," said the pragmatist, Joseph Stalin, on the 25th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. The logic of things indicated to Stalin that the U.S.S.R., so long isolated from the rest of the world, was isolated no longer. Russia had a 20-year treaty of alliance with Great Britain, backed by an enormous fund of gratitude and confidence among the English people; the Red Army had the admiration of millions of people throughout Europe who were inclined to think Russia the most promising, as it had been the most successful, of the Allied...