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...Santayana's philosophy ("My system is not mine, nor new") pragmatism, naturalism, hedonism and materialism leap into the philosophical arena flashing beautifully tempered verbal weapons, gracefully swipe at each other with sardonic wit and brilliant exposition-until all fall back exhausted by their civilized exhibitionism, each one's argument largely canceled out by all the others. There can be little doubt that Santayana is speaking for himself as referee when The Stranger says: "A good life seems to me a good, and a bad life an evil; but life and death simply are neither good nor evil...
...West had gained during the eight-month interval since the last Foreign Ministers' session. That fact was infinitely more important than Molotov's verbal fishhooks-which, in their nasty way, were important...
Norman Thomas, inveterate Socialist candidate for President, distributed some verbal presents to his rivals this week...
...Russians, at any rate, would not stand for anyone lighting any verbal fires on their navels. The Soviet Union did not send delegates to London...
...campaigns steadily for compulsory national health insurance - which has led to frequent battles with economically orthodox medical thinkers and famed verbal brawls with Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Deutsch agrees with the A.M.A.'s scientific activities, cooperates with the association in exposing fake drugs and quacks, but he delights in the fact that a cancer-cure artist whom both had exposed sued the A.M. A. for only $250,000, Deutsch...