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...Sophist. In Minneapolis, after he was ticketed for parking in a truck zone, Motorist Andy Veres argued in traffic court that he was only half guilty since part of his car projected into a legal parking area, persuaded Judge Tom Bergin to cut his $5 fine...
...pious man, no sophist, of simple origin and sympathies, no snob; he is neutral by dint of his small country's powerlessness, but his political ideology is that of the West. "Burma and America are in the same boat-we fight the same evils," he once declared. And although he was awed and impressed by Red China during his recent visit to Peking, U Nu did not shrink from publicly proclaiming to Mao: "Americans are a very generous and brave people...
Meanwhile, in Cambridge, the bird's former roost-mates began a frantle search for the stray sophist. Several were seen lurking near city pumpkin plots (the bird lives on pumpkin seeds) with purse nets...
Professor Winspear became suspicious of the Socratic tradition when he noticed that Socrates was described differently by Aristophanes than by Plato. In his satiric play, The Clouds, Aristophanes pictured Socrates as a ragged leader of the rabble, a Sophist, "a thoroughly subversive influence." Pondering this contradiction, Professor Winspear next noticed that The Clouds was produced in 423 B.C., when Socrates was 47 and Plato a child of six. He concluded that between 423 and about 400 B.C., when Plato knew him, Socrates changed, and that young Plato, who had a high contempt for the rabble, chose to overlook 70-year...
...President oft-twitted, was rudely chucked under the chin last week by Socialist-Sophist Upton Sinclair of Pasadena, who announced the publication of an allegedly humorous political satire entitled The Spokesman's Secretary: Being the Letters of Mame to Mom. Stenographer Mame reports the antics of -"the greatest Man in the whole wide world" astride an electric "camelephant" (exercise machine) and how she tells him what to tell newsgatherers to tell the people to think. Author Sinclair's announcement betrayed lame borrowings from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, moronese novelette by Author Anita Loos...