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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William James, Freud. Most controversial omissions: Luther, Calvin, Moliere, Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Einstein. † New coinage meaning "collection of topics." * Positivists are the philosophical school, virtually dominant in the U.S. and Britain today, which suggests that philosophy is merely a tool for the logical analysis of limited propositions. Adler hates the positivists' guts, and they his. * Students in his first class: Clifton Fadiman, Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers...
...which compares the dangerous knowledge of Communism to the dangerous knowledge of safe cracking is absolutely right. Both are bad and should not be taught. While it may be true that safe cracking is taught to locksmiths and that a knowledge of communist theory and practice is a vital tool today, we can not afford to take the chance that crooks and mush head idealists will use these tools for bad. Therefore, we must do our best to forget what we know about Communism. An operational difficulty may arise when no American remembers what Communism was. The doubters will start...
...radio show (Sun. 6 p.m., ABC). Adam Hat Stores, his sponsor for a year and a half, dropped him a few weeks after Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, with the protection of his Senator's privilege, denounced Pearson on the floor of the Senate as a "Communist tool," and called for a boycott on Adam Hats (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951). Last week Pearson finally seemed to have beaten the McCarthy hex. Carter Products (Little Liver Pills, Rise, Arrid) signed him to a 52-week radio & TV contract, effective in April. But Pearson admitted that his new radio pay will...
Fuel Fixer. An emergency fuel unit for automobiles and trucks was brought out by the Viking Tool & Machine Corp. of Belleville, NJ. The gadget, which holds one gallon of gas, is installed on the carburetor, and operates independently of the regular fuel system. It is guaranteed to start a car when it is out of gas, has a frozen or leaky gas line or a faulty fuel pump. Price...
Bundy supplies connective material in each chapter and a preface in which he answers the Secretary's critics including the "academic men-of-good-will" who consider him "a prisoner of his critics" and "thus a tool of blind reaction." In discussing McCarthyism, Bundy says, "One way out of this difficulty would be to ignore the Senator, or to reply to his accusations with a short and satisfying word," but he goes on to include a comprehensive section on "Security and Loyalty in the Department of State...