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...world at large he was most renowned for his Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, an unsurpassed mnemonic feat of verbatim reporting, which has been reissued in paperback and even translated into Arabic. But, steadfastly refusing all honors and awards, he especially enjoyed writing under the shielding "Uncle Dudley" byline of the Boston Globe, whose pages he graced, lustrum after lustrum, for an entire half-century. His Sunday editorials, always timely, were usually timeless as well, and unexcelled in any other newspaper...
...simplified the foundations of logic as presented in Whitehead's and Russell's Principia Mathematica, and later worked in developing the theories of notational relativity and pre-assertional logic...
...Holbrook, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Zohra Lampert and Salome Jens. About half the actors are young newcomers who are being trained as they go, both in productions and in daily classes that have been going on for more than a year. The group's guiding lights are Robert Whitehead, who was one of Broadway's most successful producers (Member of the Wedding), and Director Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire). Its "executive consultant" is Critic-Director Har old Clurman (Waiting for Lefty). Its stage designer is Jo Mielziner, like the others...
...There is no question about his greatness," according to Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. In a history of philosophy in the twentieth century, Firth says, Lewis will be ranked along with John Dewey, George Santayana, and Alfred Noyes Whitehead, even though he was a "philosopher's philosopher" unknown to the layman...
...know what I think 'till I see what I say," Alfred North Whitehead quoted someone as saying. One can imagine H. Stuart Hughes reading his new book--History as Art and Science--with the same wonderment. For in the space of 107 pages Hughes has collected five scholarly but extraordinarily unlikely essays on the changing nature of historical knowledge, where it came from and where it is going. In a book whose subtitle suggests serene contemplation of "twin vistas on the past," one finds assertions just as controversial as those in his last book, An Approach to Peace...