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Married. Mortimer J. Adler, 60, professor, philosopher, author (How To Read A Book, etc.). lecturer, and compiler of the Syntopicon, a mammoth cross-index of works written by 74 of the world's most important authors on 102 of the world's most important ideas; and Caroline Sage Pring, 26, his former assistant; he for the second time; in San Francisco...
...University, where he taught before his retirement, paraded up Jerusalem's Lovers of Zion Street to the door of Buber's villa, carrying torches and singing in Hebrew "For Martin's a jolly good fellow." On the veranda, a pretty coed garlanded the white-whiskered Hasidic sage with flowers and soundly bussed his cheek. "What?" asked Buber with a merry twinkle. "Is there only one girl student here?" Then the students presented him with honorary membership in their student union. "I have a drawer full of honorary degrees, in everything from theology to medicine," said Buber...
...deposit a quarter and water runs out of an old innertube. At the same distance away are a telephone line and power line running down the highway." Scratches bulldozed in the desert are given glamorous names such as Riverside Drive. And in the center of this wasteland of sage and sand stands a giant billboard saying: THIS...
...Natural and the Supernatural Jew (Pantheon; $6) is a wide-ranging survey of modern Jewish thought, by the current enfant terrible in the field. Theologian Cohen, 34, writes of Judaism from the standpoint of the maskil-the Jewish sage who is outside the rabbinate. Although he studied at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary (as well as at Columbia and Chicago), Cohen is by profession a publisher; he founded the Meridian line of quality paperbacks and now edits religious books for Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Cohen is a believing Jew who accepts neither the Orthodox, nor Conservative nor Reform label...
...unawed, sold his first book, and three years later returned to the U.S. in triumph. In the long later years, he won the Pulitzer Prize four times, taught at Amherst and Dartmouth, was a familiar figure on the lecture circuit. He became a sort of traveling cracker-barrel sage who could produce an aphorism at the drop of a question. Asked his opinion of free verse, he said: "I would as soon play tennis without a net." Asked whether literature was an escape, he snapped: "The weak think they are escaping; the strong think they are pursuing." In his latter...