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...close to Gulbenkian. but a few men were near him. In Gulbenkian, Biographer Lodwick draws on the slightly embittered memories of David Young, for 26 years Gulbenkian's secretary. In Mr Five Per Cent, Biographer Hewins relies on the even-tempered viewpoint of Gulbenkian's only son. Nubar. now 62 and described as a flamboyantly bearded and monocled devotee of fox hunts, orchids and Rolls-Royces. Both books are unevenly written and a shade hero-worshipful. What emerges from each is a curiously fascinating bifocal vision that combines moments of startling intimacy with impersonal middle-distance reporting...
...stated that it is the national organization of Humanists, with headquarters at Yellow Springs, Ohio, which corresponds in the field of Humanism to our other national societies in the respective fields of the several arts and sciences. Membership in the A.H.A. is open to all in sympathy with its viewpoint and objectives, and its strong representation in academic and professional circles constitutes impressive evidence of the important position which Naturalistic Humanism has attained in contemporary American thought. Harold R. Rafton...
Aren't you being somewhat overgenerous to yourselves in your article on "Colonialism & the U.S."? Your phrase "devotion to principle" as a description of the U.S. attitude strikes this reader as a hilarious viewpoint...
After Florovsky and Stendahl described their "Continetal background," where "a university is not regarded as a community," William R. Crout 3 GD, pointed out that no speaker had upheld the tradition of the Anglo-Saxon university. This viewpoint, Crout said, "should not be omitted...
...book, which first appeared in serial form next to Senator John F. Kennedy's picture in the Boston Globe. Professor Handlin literally asks the question as he begins, almost answers it as he concludes, and wonders about it all the way through this "Whig history" written from a Catholic viewpoint...