Word: willard
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...generation ago, atheistic empiricists like Harvard's Willard V. Quine were influential simply because "they were the brightest people," says Philosophy Professor Roderick Chisholm of Brown University, adding that now the "brightest people include theists, using a kind of tough-minded intellectualism" that was often lacking on their side of the debate...
Warren D. Goldfarb, assistant professor of Philosophy, said yesterday he had about 50 per cent of Willard V. O. Quine's "Methods of Logic," copied for students in his Philosophy 140, "Deductive Logic" course last fall since the Coop supplied about 75 copies less than needed. Goldfarb said that although he did not ask the publisher for the right to copy portions of the book, the book was out of print and "Quine wouldn't mind...
...Within the formula, a thousand variations flourish. Weathercasters differ about the measure of dignity the occasion calls for. Before Willard Scott moved to NBC's Today Show, he be came a Washington, D.C., fixture by giving his WRC-TV weathercast in kilts, Robin Hood costumes or George Washington getups. Audiences in Savannah have had a weather reporter who talked to a seagull; those in Cleveland have enjoyed one who blew hot licks on his trumpet between temperature recitations. Station KDBC-TV in El Paso has a Lhasa Apso named Puffy Little Cloud who gives a forecast by appearing...
Such a history has tended to dam age the self-esteem of TV weathercasters. Sometimes they even suspect themselves of fraud. Willard Scott has been heard to say, with an undercurrent of melancholy: "A trained gorilla could do what I do." In fact, even if some of today's forecasters are merely local station Ken dolls rolled out to mouth data gleaned from WE 6-1212, many are knowledgeable meteorologists who provide a valuable public service. Gordon Barnes of WDVM-TV in Washington, D.C., operates his own independent weather service. The best in the business is Dr. Frank Field...
...Willard F. Enteman, the president of Bowdoin College, conceived the voluntary group as a response to the common energy problems which are driving up costs in northeastern colleges and universities, Kamin said...