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...surprising that Mortimer J. Adler, who has repeatedly plunged himself into the thorniest problems of education, should tackle this ancient theme. Already as a Columbia undergraduate, Adler nagged philosophy professors by exposing certain of their contradictions, snubbed revered Educator John Dewey by spoofing pragmatism as bits of useful information at the price of wisdom. As a philosophy professor, he campaigned against universities' traditional system of departmentalization and specialization. As an author, he tried to summarize (in his The Great Ideas-a Syntopicon) the history of Western thought (to be found in the Hutchins-and Adler-edited Great Books...
...interracial dance near London, Patrick met and fell in love with a sturdy young blonde housemaid from Holland. A short time later the two married. When, after returning home alone, Patrick sent for his wife and baby daughter to join him, he became the center of the thorniest and most widely publicized racial dispute in all of Southern Rhodesia's history...
...Took firm hold of the thorniest defense problem of them all by calling for Pentagon reorganization and by warning the Pentagon's generals and admirals that "harmful service rivalries" must stop...
With the death of Diego Rivera in Mexico City last week at 70, the Western Hemisphere lost its most commanding painter and one of its thorniest personalities. A huge, suave, slow-moving, spherical creature with great sophistication and prodigious energy, he made a practice of overwhelming women-and all opponents but the last. The rich enjoyed him as a comradely collector and bon vivant (he left a million-dollar estate plus a collection of pre-Columbian Indian art worth as much again). Beggars revered him as a man who courteously pressed folding money into their outstretched hands. Communist leaders kept...
Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury was for well-modulated tones: too much political moralizing by the churches can lead to moral indignation in the countries concerned, and moral indignation "is a dangerous dynamite that has to be controlled." Thorniest case in point: a 900-word report from the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs urged Christians in countries that planned tests of nuclear weapons to take a calculated "risk for peace" by urging their governments to stop all such tests for a trial period-even without prior international control agreements-"in the hope that others will...