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...program." The show has never sought and never had a sponsor. Moderator Bryson, a florid, white-thatched Nebraskan, is the animator of the show and knows how to keep the talk lively and the air from going dead. "The goal of the program," he says, "is to get a wider and wider public to read those books out of the history of the world mind which are readable, and also to discuss books that are turning points in history which are not readable, like Einstein's Relativity...
...evident in recent years. There has been a consistent effort to increase the number of courses of interest to non-concentrators, such as Music 128, "Elizabethan Madrigals and Songs." In addition, there has been a departure from the traditional nucleus of basic theory courses for concentrators to allow a wider selection of courses for a major in the History and Literature of Music...
...been to follow out the genealogy of a term in past writers to get at its inner meaning to the philosopher he is studying. From these assembled clues he has built up solutions to complex philosophic problems, while at the same time his method has led him inevitably to wider and wider circles of philosophic inquiry. One thinker has always led him to the next. "You can't isolate," he says, summing up his own experience, "a problem, a person, or a language...
...issue between George and Herbie was not morals but method. Herbie stood for a "regulated city." George's platform was "clean but liberal." It soon became apparent that Clough was planning a wider-open city than Herbie...
...except when forced. One of the doctors compared Mrs. A. to a near-sighted woman hit by a car on a busy street: "She is now standing on the psychotic side," he said, "and is afraid to cross to the normal side. Everything looks out of proportion--the street wider, the cars bigger, the danger greater. So she turns her back to the world and closes her eyes...