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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wisdom. Jacobsen demanded $2,000 for every year he wasted at the college, plus cancellation of his $1,000 debt, plus $1,000 for the tuition had paid and $16 for legal expenses. Speaking for the college, Dean Lawrence Chamberlain said that wisdom is only "a hoped-for end product of education," and that neither Columbia nor any other institution could teach it. But that argument did not impress embattled Jacobsen one bit. After all, with two other students, he is now learning wisdom, truth, understanding, etc., at a special school in Long Valley called Gurukula (home of the philosopher...
Last week Kolynos was off the Grey list and Fatt was on the fire. On the very day that he wrote his memo, trim, slim Adman Fatt appeared on his first TV program, the third-degreeish Nightbeat, to support the view that admen really believe in their products. Fatt said he had used Grey-advertised Mennen Hair Creme and Chock Full O' Nuts coffee in his own home that very morning. What about Kolynos toothpaste? He had fallen down there, he conceded in a burst of confidence. Instead of Kolynos he had brushed with Crest, a Procter & Gamble product...
What if Grey lost both Kolynos and Procter & Gamble accounts, asked Interviewer Howard Whitman, and picked up a new toothpaste client? Fatt admitted that he "probably" would then use the new product. Pressed Whitman: "But don't you like to use the best toothpaste?" Forwarding his best foot into his mouth, Fatt replied: "I think all toothpastes are good, and I believe it would be almost impossible to determine which is best...
...LEGACY, by Sibille Bedford. A cool, backward look at Victorian and Edwardian Europe, a time when the big rich were truly idle and upperclass life was dedicated to an endless battle with boredom. Middle-aged First-Novelist Bedford turns the cosmopolitan novel, a rare enough product nowadays, into an immensely entertaining remembrance-and indictment-of things past...
Nobody can seriously maintain such a proposition who has bothered to examine the observations of previous generations. Informal observation has added very little to our knowledge of human nature since the Christian revelation replaced Hellenism. A complete formulation must either be the by product of individual genius (which may be called Godly for lack of a better word) or else must come as a culmination to a long formal development which allows individuals to use the insights and visions of the past, as did the Greek dramatists...