Word: quests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, 13 men* who had spent three years and $215,000 in quest of the answers brought in their report. A Free and Responsible Press (University of Chicago Press; $2) was the work, not of newspapermen, but of educators, philosophers, lawyers, a poet, a banker. They, and a handful of assistants, had met 17 times, heard 283 witnesses, reflected and argued as the Commission on Freedom of the Press. They were financed by grants from Time Inc. ($200,000) and Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. ($15,000). But their conclusions were strictly their...
...book, by Craig Gilbert '47, is an implausible version of the Pilgrim settlement in New England. Starting with a scene aboard ship, the story winds its way through the landing and establishment of camp; the plot thickens as Myles Standish goes in search of food and his sailors in quest of Indian squaws. All this causes the Mayflower women to go on a love strike, the men countering by importing a large shipment of Indian girls of every shape and size. The necessities of history force author Gilbert to reconcile the colonizers eventually, but not before he firmly establishes...
PHILOSOPHER'S QUEST (275 pp.)- Irwln Edman-Viking...
...absence of philosophical thinking in a book by a professional philosopher might seem a damning defect. In Philosopher's Quest, as in its predecessor (the best-selling Philosopher's Holiday), it is meant to be a source of charm. Professor Edman's gift for talking about philosophy has made him one of the prides of Columbia's faculty and a crowd-drawing lecturer. The same gift, at work in his good-humored essays, will endear him to readers who do not wish to put up their hands and ask searching questions...
...with Paul de Kruif; produced by the American Repertory Theatre) is still, after 13 years, a vivid stage document. It tells the story of the search for the cause of yellow fever and, without too much sentimentality, portrays the heroism of men' who gambled their lives in the quest...