Word: sidney
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Primarily concerned with the cold war, communism, education, and (in his last book) problems of existence, Sidney Hook also runs a department at NYU. He has been chairman of the Philosophy Department since...
...more than a generation Sidney Hook has expressed himself with admirable courage and candor on the fundamental questions of social philosophy. He stands for something very valuable in our cultural life...
Married. Ivy Maude Baker Priest, 55, Treasurer of the U.S. in the Eisenhower Administration and longtime Republican National Committeewoman for Utah; and Sidney William Stevens, 58, Beverly Hills real estate dealer; she for the second time (her husband, Furniture Executive Roy F. Priest, died in 1959), he for the first; in Los Angeles...
...summer faculty includes teachers from 32 American universities, five foreign institutions, two high schools, and the New York Board of Education. Among the visitors are Karl W. Deutsch, professor of Political Science at Yale; Viktor E. Frankl, professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Vienna; Sidney Hook, professor of Philosophy at New York University; Michael Jaffe, fellow of King's College, University of Cambrige; John F. Kermode, John Edward Taylor Professor of English at the University of Manchester, Shigeto Tsuru, professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo; and Horace Armistead, professor of Design at Boston University...
...great many readers will violently disagree with his Dewey-eyed "pragmatic naturalism," his belief that the scientific method is readily applicable to moral problems. Some may find his anti-religious skepticism dated or even antique. But anyone who wants to understand the broad tradition in Western thought which Sidney Hook represents could scarcely find a better, clearer or more honest exposition...