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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every schoolboy knows that Socrates was an influential Greek educator who was condemned to drink hemlock for "corrupting" Athens' youth. For 2,300 years Socrates has been pictured, on the strength of Plato's description of him, as a highborn philosopher who lived ascetically, spent his time asking searching questions of Athenians in the market place, showed up the Greek Sophists, avoided politics and was eventually martyred by an ignorant mob for teaching his pupils idealistic notions of justice and authority...
Professor Winspear spent several years investigating that past by combing the works of other Greek writers. His conclusion: Socrates was a turncoat, a radical in youth, in old age a conservative who undermined Greek democracy. The professor's account...
...scientist eminently well equipped for this study is Carleton Stevens Coon of Harvard, a large, ursine, pleasant-mannered and persevering anthropologist who has spent the past eight years traipsing all over Europe, eastern Asia and northern Africa, photographing and measuring all kinds of people, studying human skeletal material of all ages, and writing a book. This week, while Dr. Coon was vacationing in the Azores with his wife, his book, a richly documented treatise aimed at "the college audience," was published...
...Chinese for "A Little Bit Of Something Precious") was the first giant panda ever to reach U. S. shores alive. To capture it, Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr. spent $20,000 and many months in remote Tibet, two years ago gave the baby giant panda to Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Mrs. Harkness introduced Su-Lin as a "she," and Chicago's zoologists saw no reason to change the designation...
...Nutmeg Tree was a surprise best-seller two years ago. As a followup, Harlequin House is less surprising; it tells a bouncing, bubbling, frankly inconsequential story about giddy Lisbeth and her shiftless brother Ronny, with Lisbeth managing four men at once in a campaign to reform Ronny who had spent six months in jail for somebody else's racket...