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...involved an exotic mixture of personalities. On the dais waiting to deliver their addresses, Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich sat with that outrider of neutralism, Nobel-prize-winning Chemist Linus Pauling. At another panel, Kremlinologist George Kennan, onetime Ambassador to Russia and Yugoslavia, clashed with Dr. Adam Schaff, the leading Marxist theoretician of Poland...
Another barrier to East-West concord is a fundamental philosophical disagreement about the meaning of peaceful coexistence. Poland's Schaff, the most articulate of the five Communists who spoke at the convocation, described the term grandly as a "noble competition for the minds and brains of the people" between rival ideologies. Both Kennan and Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak answered that it is hard for the West to consider the competition "noble" so long as the Reds deny personal liberty and depend on rule by coercion...
Pereira, who has been beaten only once in Ivy competition, could make the semi-finals in the 167 pound class. But, he will still have to face Yale's Dave Schaff, who handed him his lone season defeat, in the finals...
Trailing by four points, the Crimson had to have a victory from star grappler Fred Periera at 167 to stay in the match. But Yale's Dave Schaff topped Periera with a 12 to 4 score on a near...
...skepticism to the jester. Between them there is eternal struggle. "Both violate the mind," writes Kolakowski, "the priest by strangling it with catechism; the jester by harassing it with mockery." Kolakowski favors the jester, who "mistrusts the stabilized world, denounces as doubtful what appears as unshakable." Another philosopher, Adam Schaff, who recently visited the U.S., remains more loyal to Marxism, but recognizes that individual principle sometimes conflicts with group discipline. Marxism, he writes, should tolerate such clashes because of its "methodological skepticism...