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Stages on Life's Way is not only one of Kierkegaard's best books* but luckily his most interesting to ordinary, unmystical readers. And because his musings on the erotic are so lucid, irreligious mankind will respect this essentially religious thinker. Judges Translator Lowrie, "The Stages is clearly a work of genius...
...that the election is over, Wendell Willkie has become a much more sober and conservative speaker. He has also become a more sober and conservative political thinker--mostly more conservative...
...League for the Abolition of Amateur Ketchup Throwing. Not long ago it was suggested that fencing foils be used to settle family disputes, that the gap between Alaska and Asia be plugged so that the Japanese Current would not be chilled by meeting up with the Arctic Current. Another thinker revealed that he was working on an airplane that could make 800 miles an hour. Another mind had invented an inverted periscope for seeing fish under water. After the inventor mentioned the fact that he had seen a submerged submarine 350 feet away with his periscope, the Navy...
...Hugo." Mr. Shanks sadly admits that no recent English critic would have thought of including Rudyard Kipling among England's great, even tagged with an "Alas!" Mr. Shanks says briskly that this is a lot of nonsense: Kipling was not merely a great writer but a great political thinker, and got better & better as he went along. Less a critic than a partisan, Mr. Shanks thus arouses, in his own fainter way, echoes of the same violent feelings that Kipling himself once detonated right & left...
...readers have long ago forgotten or decided to ignore Kipling's political creed for the sake of his storytelling, his motto-memorable verse: Mr. Shanks sternly reminds them that they had better not. Whether or not Kipling was a profound thinker, he was an effective preacher, and he never came down from the pulpit, even when he was conducting services ostensibly for the children (The Jungle Books, Just So Stories...