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...book seller told me when he took my dollar, "Twenty-five big names at four cents apiece is a good buy." There are better reasons for purchasing America and the Intellectuals, however. Though highly compressed, the contributions to the symposium are eloquent and often stimulating rambles through American culture...
...essays first appeared under the elastic title, Our Country and Our Culture, in three issues of the Partisan Review last year. More apt, the new title recognizes the two foci of the symposium: the state of American society, facing the threats of mass culture and a pressure for conformity; and the dilemma of the American intellectual, seeking a place for himself in a cultural context he can no longer flee...
...editorial statement, the Review prescribes the lines of the symposium. The editors cite the tradition of the intellectual's rejection of America the expatriates who felt with Henry James that "the soil of American perception is a poor, little, barren, artificial deposit" and those who remained at home to rail against the "booboisic" and capitalist reaction. All this has changed, however, the editors declare. "The American artist and intellectual no longer feels 'disinherited' . . . most writers . . . want to be very much a part of American life." Essential to this change, the Review decides, is the recognition of America as the defender...
...packed Emerson D. four present-day Harvard philosophers delivered a symposium in memory of the sometime Harvard philosopher. The symposium represented the first public tribute to Santayana by the Philosophy Department...
Over 300 scientists last night came to hear two Harvard men and a University of Chicago professor speak on the question. "Is the concept of Science different in Biology from what it is in the Physical Sciences?" In this symposium, the first meeting of the Boston Society of Biologists held at M.I.T., President Conant spoke for the chemist, Dr. Philipp G. Frank, lecturer on Physics and Mathematics, represented his fields and Dr. Paul Weiss, professor of Zoology at the University of Chicago, took the biologist's viewpoint...