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...Descartes' most disastrous bequest, says Van Dusen, was his distinction between thought and matter-a dualism which became in Kant the divorce between reality as revealed by faith, and reality as revealed through the senses. The result today is the frightening schism "between facts and values, between the realm of science and the realm of art and religion; more recently between the secular and the spiritual." (Ironically, says Van Dusen, both Descartes and Kant had been illumined by a firm faith in God as the ultimate truth. "The history of human thought knows no more pathetic paradox than...
...playing a wide variety of selections from music to Muzak. As you might judge from his theatre program appearances, Fiedler sanctions the quaint custom of purveying beer among the higher priced seats. Harvard night at the Pops, May 10, is, of course, without peer as an adventure into the realm of familiar music. Unfortunately, Pops also holds B.U. and Northeastern nights, and attendance at these affairs is somewhat less comforting, unless you prefer their songs...
...Also in realm of pleasant music are the spring evening Glee Club concerts on the Widener steps and the outdoor Band concerts emanating from the Hatch shell on the Charles River esplanade. Then again there's no telling when Schneider's Silver Cornet band may cut loose again down by the Winthrop gate...
Harry Truman dispatched a sharp reminder again demanding silence, and smoldered when he was told later in the week of a British correspondent's report of a conversation with MacArthur: "He said that it was not the soldier who had encroached on the realm of the politician, it was the politician who had encroached on that of the soldier." Then came the Martin letter, addressed to a member of the political opposition, with its observation: "It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here ... we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight...
...become wild with speculation as to the significance of this discovery," said Dr. Singer, "but no speculation is yet justified. This work may remain in the realm of abstract reason for many years [but] it does emphasize a function of the nerves that was not as well known as it should...