Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, 700 professional philosophers from 25 countries assembled in Amsterdam to amass what truth they could. The occasion was the tenth International Congress of Philosophy, which met in the fern-draped auditorium of Amsterdam University. Its theme: Man, Mankind and (driving home the point) Humanity...
...rather be myself . . . Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly." So declaims the unadjustable hero of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's satiric fable about a totally efficient, totally soulless Utopia. This defense of the unreconstructed individual, who refuses to run with the mob, is a central theme in much of Huxley's writing, and it spills all over his latest novel. But where Brave New World was a neat stiletto jab into the tender hide of the reforming perfectionists, Ape and Essence, a poorer novel, is a rather crude bludgeon indiscriminately aimed...
...Angeles, highbrow Composer Igor Stravinsky (The Firebird) sued Music Publisher Lou Levy (Beat Me Daddy) for $250,000. Levy had published a lowbrow version of a Firebird theme (TIME, Nov. 3), and described the music as Stravinsky's, said Stravinsky. He said he had positively not written it, and the whole thing was terribly humiliating...
Communism-U.S. Brand, an ambitious hour-long documentary networked by ABC one night this week, led off with this shocker from the U.S. Communist Party's oath of allegiance, never wavered from its main theme: "The evidence will be ours, the conclusions must be yours...
...Lorenzo. Charles de Tolnay, a Michelangelo scholar and member of Princeton's highbrow Institute for Advanced Study, has done much better. In a newly published book of bold erudition (The Medici Chapel; Princeton University Press, $20) De Tolnay interprets the entire chapel in the light of a single theme. Deep inside De Tolnay's brier patch of facts and shrewd guesses lies new evidence that Michelangelo, like all great artists, was a genius in mind and spirit as well as in eye and hand...