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...abstruse nineteenth century philosophy remarkably popular. While Taubes demands hard work from his students he is unrelenting in setting his own schedule. In addition to his philosophy course, Taubes teachers a Humanities course in "Freedom and the Spirit of Heresy," a Humanities 3 section, and writes prolifically on Hobbes, Rousseau and Hegel...
...rabbit in the picture accords with Piero's deep feeling for nature. Like Rousseau, he dreamed of a golden age when noble savages lived in harmony with the wilderness. The sophisticated Florentines of Piero's day found him increasingly strange. Giorgio Vasari coolly records that after Piero's death in 1521, "it appeared that he had lived the life of a brute rather than a man, as he had kept himself shut up and would not permit anyone to see him work. He would not allow his rooms to be swept, he ate when he felt hungry...
This half, taught by Elliott and now to be given in the spring, deals with political theory, and includes a wide range of study in such political philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Machiavelli...
...want to get into trouble with the law and be held in contempt for questioning Sergeant Joe Friday, but I note his comments about George Rosenberg, Jim Moser and Bill Rousseau, his former associates in Dragnet, i.e., "guys who are experts in riding on your back and putting their hands in your pockets." Those of us who are familiar with such matters are well aware that were it not for George Rosenberg, Sergeant Friday would probably have never achieved his present rank at all ... As Webb's agent he put the program together with the help of the aforementioned...
...Webb, whom you quaintly describe in your recent article as "basically modest," gives the impression that the original radio Dragnet sprang full-blown, like Minerva, from his forehead. Just for the record: the radio audition which sold the original series was produced by William P. Rousseau and directed by Carl Gruener ... I wrote the script . . . You quote Webb as asking of those who ... are no longer with him: "You just show me their track records." He will be happy to learn that at present I am working toward a Ph.D. at Columbia. I consider it to be something...