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...rest of your report, the direct quotes were selected perceptively and fairly, but I regret that the editorial slant contradicts their meaning and sets up a straw man by equating me with Herbert Spencer. If you wish to refute me, you will not do so by refuting Spencer (or Nietzsche, or Epicurus or Robert A. Taft). Their philosophies are not mine...
Onetime Economics Professor Douglas (University of Chicago) gave his argument a semantic slant, turned his erudition on a recent newspaper charge that he is an economic demagogue. By a "process of semantic obfuscation," said he, "demagogue" had lost its original Greek meaning of "one who spoke for the people." Curiously, added Douglas, "while demagoguery is denounced as the worst evil, plutogoguery is not denounced." Douglas' definition of a "plutogogue": one using "unworthy arguments in support of the wealthy and the powerful." Concluded he: "A lot of arguments which masquerade under the term of 'fiscal responsibility' are plutogogic...
...brand-new magazine is on sale this week on Russia's newsstands. Title: Science and Religion. Editorial slant: religion ridiculed in village-atheist terms, scientists chided for any signs of backsliding from faithlessness. (One author accuses leftish U.S. Astronomer Harlow Shapley of attempting to reconcile God and the expanding universe, advises him: "Your hopes are vain, Professor Shapley!") The magazine's lead article is by Britain's spry old Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Russell, 87, who asks: "Has religion made a useful contribution to civilization?" His answer: No, except for helping to establish the calendar and inducing...
...easy to lose a person in a welter of data," Dr. Bidwell notes, "but our main concern is for the individual." Students cannot be categorized into single groups, he feels, and thus the project definitely has a slant toward individuality. Although no final results can be expected for a few years, the new Unit B may soon produce some significant insights into the inter-relation of the individual and the College...
...articles by "liberal" correspondents (including a number of the more literary Senators). It has been charged that its Book Review section often ignores or blasts "conservative" books of high quality, and that its "News of the Week in Review" (after the first two pages) often shows a decidedly "liberal" slant...