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...chairman of three of Humphrey's committees. It's an incredible story of a brilliant man who has stood up. There're a lot of brilliant men around--Nader, Galbraith, Gardner--but they didn't want to take the abuse. Stanley's been a brilliant thinker for industry--he invented the Reader's Digest insert of the flag decal that you can tear out and put on car windows. He has a brilliant, inventive and practical mind, with an ability to articulate brilliant ideas very simply...
...place Percy in an anti-Chomskian camp or an anti structuralist camp would be misleading, however; the 20 years' worth of essays newly collected in The Message in the Bottle are nothing if not iconoclastic. Percy styles himself a solitary thinker, sitting for from the inhospitable blinding turmoll of the university. The first essay in this volume is subtitled "How I Discovered the Delta Factor Sitting at My Desk One Summer Day in Louisiana in the 1950's Thinking About an Event in the Life of Helen Keller on Another Summer Day in Alabama...
...MADE IN JAPAN. The scholar becomes a prisoner of his obsession, forced to preserve the dream by repeating it every night. But reality is inexorable. Restaurants and boutiques spring up around collection and collector: the Florence Nightingale Tearoom, the Oscar Wilde Way Out. Spectators come to gawk at the thinker, not the thought; finally even the erotic kinks are removed by relentless commercial vulgarity...
...jobs at home. As a Member of Parliament in the '20s, he attempted to introduce Keynesian theories into monetary planning. His social proposals in the '30s were not unlike Franklin Roosevelt's. Historian A.J.P. Taylor has gone so far as to declare Mosley the best political thinker of the age, although synthesizer seems the more appropriate judgment. Rather than a burning sense of injustice, Biographer Skidelsky detects a "burning sense of inefficiency" as motivating Mosley's enormous energies...
...study of history has its equivalent of Dupin the relaxed thinker puffing on his meerschaum, scoffing at the scurrying police as they collect their clues. Worried because "the nineteenth-century pre-eminence of history in the sphere of intellect no longer obtains," intellectual and musical historian Jacques Barzun (University Professor at Columbia, author of Darwin, Marx. Wagner) has undertaken to incite resistance to modern modes of history. In Clio and the Doctors: Psycho History Quanto-History, and History (University of Chicago Press) he cites the depths of the problem he and some other older historians see: The historical sense...