Word: metaphysicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...describes the nightmares of such varied and notable personalities as the Queen of Sheba, the Shakespearean expurgator Bowdler, Stalin, Dean Acheson, a modern psychoanalyst, a metaphysician, and an existentialist. Bowdler, or example, dreams that his wife reads a copy of the original Shakespeare, goes mad out of remorse for her dread deed, and is carried off to the asylum, shouting Shakespearean obscenities to the neighbors as the departs...
...novelist, François Mauriac has two sides: 1) the urbane Frenchman who analyzes love with the detachment of a metaphysician, and 2) the devout Roman Catholic who wrestles with...
With $655,000 from the Ford and Old Dominion Foundations, Adler will be assisted by 14 full-time scholars. He also intends to call in such notable consultants as Thomist Jacques Maritain and Yale Metaphysician Paul Weiss. Together these men will pluck one topic at a time from the modern Babel, and at the end of each investigation, publish books on it. Their purpose will not be to offer any pat answers. All they can possibly do, says Adler, is to "try to reach agreement on 1) the questions to be answered, 2) the range of possible answers...