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Tsien Hsue-shen's Degrees. Yet any picture of Caltech solely as thinker and M.I.T. solely as doer is out of focus. While M.I.T. draws no less than $126 million of its annual operating budget of $178 million from work for the Defense Department and NASA, Caltech has 181 federal research contracts and operates NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will spend $242 million this year. Caltech's practical knowledge made JPL a pioneer in tactical missiles, in launching the first U.S. satellite, in making a soft landing on the moon and in taking close-up pictures...
...last June Damon came out with Bankcardchek, an imaginative new system combining revolving credit, traveler's checks and a checking account. The first to applaud Damon's promotion was Predecessor Brace, who said: "He is far from the orthodox, pedestrian type of banker. He is a nonroutine thinker...
Moonlighting with Workingmen. A student of William James and Josiah Royce, Hocking was the last of the great American Idealists. He was a thinker who persistently denied that philosophy was simply an armchair pur suit. "If the teachings of a philosopher seem esoteric or divorced from reality," he once said, "it's the fault of the phi losopher." Hocking himself vigorously applied his vision to the realm of pub lic debate. He championed the Arab cause against Israel and criticized the cold-war policy of John Foster Dulles as being too negative. He was unafraid to prophesy: he once...
...carefully argues that parts of the Gospels are not historical in the modern sense, accepts the validity of form criticism, which assumes that certain sayings of Jesus were created by the early church. Under the circumstances, it is no surprise that the Vatican regards him as a rather disturbing thinker. Besides the normal prepublication censorship to which all priest-scholars must submit, McKenzie has to have all his writings cleared by Rome. He makes no secret of his opinion that "the practice of censorship is basically immoral and irrational...
Effluvium is the least amiable excess of which Author Gass is guilty. At his worst he spates obscurities like a jejune Joyce; at his best he generates images like the navel of the demiurge itself. And the images reflect ideas. Gass is a trained thinker, a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, and in this fable he enlivens the weary old war between good and evil with curt communiqués and rakingly comic crossfire...