Word: topic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With $655,000 from the Ford and Old Dominion Foundations, Adler will be assisted by 14 full-time scholars. He also intends to call in such notable consultants as Thomist Jacques Maritain and Yale Metaphysician Paul Weiss. Together these men will pluck one topic at a time from the modern Babel, and at the end of each investigation, publish books on it. Their purpose will not be to offer any pat answers. All they can possibly do, says Adler, is to "try to reach agreement on 1) the questions to be answered, 2) the range of possible answers...
...Syntopicon of the 102 Great Ideas (TIME, March 17). The Syntopicon merely laid the. groundwork by furnishing a key to the great books of the past. The Dialectica must attempt to treat the great issues (God, Man, Nature, History, Knowledge, Being, etc.) in relation to the present. Each topic may take many years. But eventually, Adler hopes, a great conversation will have begun. It will be a conversation that may never have an end, but if all goes according to plan, men will finally learn at least what the talk should be about...
...other hand "Thinley's Last Stand" is built around a basically amusing topic--the imposition of an admissions screening process on the Liot House--but none of the implications of its humor are left to the reader's imagination. "Macavitys Rat" picks up the old theme of extra-talented experimental animals and leaves it rather the worse for wear. Two men collaborated on Pygmalion, Mark III," thus making it twice as long and half as funny as it should have been...
Reed will speak on "Selling Ideas in a Troubled World", Jessup will offer "Towards a New Federalism", while Lunding's topic is "Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness in Business". Business School Dean, Donald K. David, will also address the group, speaking on "Developing Administrative Concepts in Business...
...together party in the Mellon quadrangle after the panels, a banquet will be held at the Harvard Club of Boston. Associate Dean Stanley F. Teele will make a report to the alumni, and President Conant will be the main speaker of the evening. The President has not announced his topic...