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...central to his appointment as William James Lecturer. His technical competence in the field of science, and his related interest in philosophy and psychology make him more than qualified to lecture here. His recent book, Science and the Common Understanding, shows that the scientist has a deep and uncommon understanding not only of science, but also of Man and Man's place in the world...
HENRY'S WONDERFUL MODEL T, by Floyd Clymer (219 pp.; McGraw-Hill; $5.95), and TIN LIZZIE, by Philip Van Doren Sfern (180 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $3.95), celebrate the rugged lifetime (1908-27) of that noble and uncommon carrier, the Model T Ford. The splendid pictures and authoritative text are guaranteed to bring out the old nostalgia...
...Caliban's curses and nonstop Ariel flights of the liberal imagination, most writing on the Negro problem in America makes highly unprofitable reading, in the view of talented Negro Novelist James (Go Tell It on the Mountain) Baldwin. This sheaf of personal essays, written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace, is an effort to retrieve the Negro from the abstractions of the do-gooders and the no-goods...
...only does Payne-Whitney offer classes in uncommon sports, but its facilities for even ordinary sports are unusual. Each individual sport such as boxing, wrestling, and fencing has its own giant room. For fencing there is a unique device with a foil attached to a mirror, to enable students to fence themselves...
...have passed on (fie! on the gross Anglo-Saxon monosyllable) are changed into flowers, or lie at rest in lovely gardens." The reason, says Gorer, is a shift away from religious belief in a life after death. "Belief in the future life, as taught in Christian doctrine, is very uncommon today, even in the minority who make churchgoing or prayer a consistent part of their lives; and without some such belief, natural death and physical decomposition have become too horrible to contemplate...