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...couple of years' membership in his early 20s, it was because he was repelled by all forms of absolutism. There was already stirring in him the great attack he would mount in The Rebel on Marxism, Communism, Hegelianism and all systems where the ends justify the means, where present-day cruelties are excused as part of an infinite plan. And he never could share the Marxist view that poverty was the ultimate evil, even though he was poor himself. He felt that a true love of life depended on giving up material goods. In the first entry...
Folowing World War II, Moise said, Americans realized their vulnerability. He called the McCarthy era a "neurotic reaction" to this realization, but added that Americans now understand the need for intellectual flexibility. This understanding is a reason for the "genuine intellectual motivation" of present-day Americans...
...charming fellows, many of whom seem to engage in a kind of verbal nit picking, identified with Oxford and known as "linguistic philosophy." Language is the gateway to knowledge, goes the argument, and analyzing ordinary language is the best way, if not to solve, at least to understand problems. Present-day Oxford philosophers have little patience with the philosophers of the past who wrestled mightily with ethics, metaphysics and transcendental abstractions. As one thinker explained to Ved Mehta: "Why bother listening to men whose problems arose from bad grammar?" Ved Mehta sums up: Once philosophers asked "What is truth...
...estimates that only 1,500 Frenchmen qualify as real Gaullists, has selected 116 of these for inclusion in his directory. Even in apostasy, he says, the Gaullist "link is indestructible. Excluded, exiled, in rebellion, Jacques Soustelle remains a member of the circle." But ironically, such ranking spokesmen for present-day Gaullist policy as Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte are excluded for lacking the proper credentials...
This method of change symbolizes the essential conservatism of the entire Program: it was an attempt to restore in present-day terms the standards of space and comfort which marked an earlier Harvard. Yet the effort at preservation has led to a transformation; presenting drama in the Loeb or teaching art in the Carpenter Center naturally produces pressure for higher; less-amateurish, standards of performance. A similar, although less sharp, pressure for excellence, is exerted by the other new buildings although Leverett Towers, with its huge population of cubicle-dwellers, has tended to de-personalize House life...