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...FUTURE OF GERMANY, by Karl Jaspers. In a passionately reasoned appeal to his countrymen, a leading German thinker urges them to build a nation on the precepts of individual responsibility and moral order...
Lamont, radical author, teacher and a former director of the American Civil Liberties Union, described Reed as a "highly serious" thinker and writer but admitted that "during Reed's recreation hours he [pause] played...
...anyone thinks One Dimensional Man was a great book, Graubard's article might well convince him otherwise. Every worthwhile thinker manages to vulgarize his own thought in his lifetime and Marcuse is no exception. The question remains: is anything in the book useful...
...significance of this position is that it places reason and technological expertise at the disposal of prevailing power. The thinker who has abdicated responsibility for the purpose of his life by placing control over his action in powers beyond his authority, has made himself a hostage to the times. Having relinquished his claim to normative reason, he is without mooring in the world. The tides of current times, degenerate as they may be, will sweep the uncommitted in their course...
...Profound Thinker. In the U.S., almost every major Protestant commemoration of the Reformation will have Catholic observers on hand. In some cases, Catholics are organizing ceremonies of their own. Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish in Madison, Wis., for example, will have an afternoon service commemorating the birth of Protestantism at which the guest speaker will be Lutheran Theologian Bruce Wrightsman. Last week's issue of the Jesuit weekly America had a portrait of Luther on its cover; inside, an article notes that it is now the consensus of Catholic theologians that "Luther was a profoundly spiritual thinker...