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...Goodman becomes a lecturer famous for his perversities, patronized for his vulgarity and self-exposure, then his problematic personality is bound to overshadow his scholarship. Paul Goodman is too important a thinker to become another sideshow...
Adlai Stevenson has meant more to America as a symbol than as a creative thinker or as a policy maker. He once explained the meaning of Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln was not an original thinker, yet it is to him "that people look today as democracy's foremost spokesman and exemplar. The supreme test of a democratic leader is in his democratic faith--and for this Lincoln stands pre-eminent." Although no Lincoln, Stevenson is important as a symbol and as a man. His U.N. speeches show the man in a different role, one which clouds the meanings of the symbol...
...more interested in over throwing the heavy-handed Diem regime than in pushing the war against the Viet Cong. Among the leaders of the State Department clique is Roger Hilsman, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. His friends at the State Department admire him as an independent thinker; his Pentagon critics have dubbed him "the field marshal" because, they say, he tries to run the whole military-political war in Viet
...main reason for Indiana's dominance is Coach James ("Doc") Counsilman, 42, a paunchy, deceptively placid-looking thinker who sums up his approach to training in three jarring words: "hurt, pain, agony." Pushing toward "the ultimate in stress without physical damage," he puts swimmers through hard pool workouts seven days a week, plus calisthenics and isometric exercises. Under the "interval" method that Counsilman follows, swimmers sprint 50 meters and pause for 25 seconds, keeping that up through 40 sprints. He drives himself hard, too, often working a 5 a.m.-to-midnight day. "Hurt, pain, agony swimmers," he says, "need...
...gateway to knowledge, goes the argument, and analyzing ordinary language is the best way, if not to solve, at least to understand problems. Present-day Oxford philosophers have little patience with the philosophers of the past who wrestled mightily with ethics, metaphysics and transcendental abstractions. As one thinker explained to Ved Mehta: "Why bother listening to men whose problems arose from bad grammar?" Ved Mehta sums up: Once philosophers asked "What is truth?" Now they say, "Look at all the different ways the word true is used in ordinary speech." All these ways summed up is all that...