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DIALOGUES OF ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (373 pp.)-Lucien Price-Little, Brown...
Harvard's late famed Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead was far from the conventional absent-minded professor, but he did have occasional verbal lapses. One day he was cautioning a student about a theory of logic. "You must take it with a grain of er . . . um ... ah ..." For almost a minute, Whitehead groped for the word, until the student suggested. "Salt. Professor...
...Whitehead beamed. "I knew it was some chemical...
...Road. It is the informal and gifted conversationalist-not the abstruse philosopher-that Boston's Lucien Price has caught in Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead. When Author Price, an editorial writer for the Boston Globe, first met Whitehead. the philosopher was past 70. But as their friendship developed, Price would leave the old man's study dazzled and "exhilarated as with a raging flame of life." From 1934 to Whitehead's death in 1947 at the age of 86, Price went back again and again, afterward recording each conversation. Once, Whitehead saw him to the door...
...Dialogues emerges the image of a man as well as the imprint of a mind. Little more than 5 ft. high, frail, bent, kindly Philosopher Whitehead had a bald, domed head framed by wispy white hair that made him look, in the words of one student, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." His bright blue eyes, set in a rosy-cheeked, unwrinkled face, had the candor of a child's. He spoke with a nicely articulated British accent, usually with deliberation, often with enthusiasm, and his mind had the freshness of youth. "Between the ages...