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Adler, who "started strangling the snake of positivism almost in his cradle," confuses his philosophical asp with his theological elbow-and TIME comes tumbling after. What Adler would do is to identify philosophy with religion. Though this is not a new enterprise, Adler thinks that he has given it what it has for centuries lacked: a sound logical basis. Modern logicians (fusty gentlemen who, as a rule, do not hire others to do their doctoral research), many of whom are not positivists, refuse to preside at Adler's shotgun marriage. Thus Adler's quarrel is not only with...
...that Try is spinning its way to momentary fame, Freberg is already at work on another situation that he believes needs some taking-off. Excerpt from his newest, Abe Snake for President...
...pygmy point of view, the trip has been more or less of a failure. They are content enough to eat Cape Town's plentiful food, but aside from the salt, they are not very fond of a civilized diet. They like their own everyday dishes, berries, roots and snake meat, better. As for all the other benefits of civilization, only the sewage system impresses them. Their loose loincloths, they say, are far superior to tight-fitting civilized clothing, and their own home brew, made from melons, has more kick than the white man's firewater...
...Little Bookie. Mortimer Adler started strangling the snake of positivism almost in his cradle. He grew up in a quiet, middle-class neighborhood in uptown Manhattan (his father was a jewelry salesman, his mother an ex-schoolteacher). He often told his playmates: "Go away. I'm thinking," and shut the door of his room on them. He was a prolific writer (to get one short story published, he mimeographed his own newspaper, which lasted for two issues). He thought he might become a poet. Sample effort: "Girls are funny creatures / Though some have pretty features / And with their whims...
...Patrick, affectionately known in local as the snake skinning savant, takes second place to John Sullivan one-time general in Washington's Continental Army, in official City celebrations today Sullivan commanded the Cambridge fort when the order came to evacuate the city on March 17, 1775, 177 years ago. The day will be called Evacuation Day, in double commemoration...