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"Whom the gods destroy they first make mad"- Euripides Current Wisdom STRAIGHT SKINNY The illustrious New Republic digs up another disturbing bit of information on Washington in The Age of...
...Nixon should read The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia...
...Give me your hand friends, and give me your help...
...The New York Post SHOW BIZ Norma Lee Browning goes to great lengths to capture a moment which will live in history: HEARTBREAK TIME: It's touch and go whether dancer Ann Miller will be able to ppen in "Anything Goes" in Toledo, Ohio...
...Clifford Irving A PHILOSOPHY OF POLITICS George McGovern, U.S...
...George McGovern CBS News April 26,1972 RELIGIOUS AWAKENING Harriet Van Home speaks the wisdom of the half-aware: To anyone even half aware of the repression, the corruption, the total depravity of the Thieu-Ky government, this pledge of allegiance from Mrs...
...I can go anywhere in the world, anywhere in this country, because I'm a citizen of the United States...
...Some of the people deploring "quotas" these days would retch at being compared with Wayne, but their argument is about the same...
...We come, finally, to the acquired freedom of self-perfection...
...The Chicago Daily News SUGGESTED READING That same awesome intellect takes time out to suggest an elegant perusal into Belles Lettres...
...With all of its citizens, all of its citizens having a great joy in saying: I'm a citizen of the United States, that's the only title I need...
...We talked to Annie by phone at Deaconess Hospital in St...
...This notion of freedom makes it possible for one to be living in a concentration camp or jail and still be considered a "free man," as long as he is virtuous...
...I don't even know what that means myself, how could I explain that to anyone else...
...Perhaps C. D. Broad was not unduly harsh when he said that behaviorism is "so preposterously silly that only the very learned men could have thought of (it...
...Like positivism, behaviorism has done much to undermine the philosophical and religious roots of freedom, roots which we who believe that man has dignity and more than just instrumental value must conserve and defend...
...I believe in white supremacy until blacks are educated to the point of responsibility," he said...
...I came here of my free will and I trust that I shall soon be a free person again, with a passport and able to travel to see my family and everybody...
...But Paul, unwilling to compromise his moral principles even at the expense of his own life, continued his efforts to propagandize Christianity...
...1972 STOMACH DISORDERS Columnist Carl T. Rowan displays mat incomparable logic which compensates for his apparent lack of formal education and has made him a sought-aher commentator and oracle: All this babble about quotas reminds me of the comment of the big-corral guru of the GOP, John Wayne...
...The Chicago Daily News THAT McGOVERN MAGIC During the New Democrats' Crusade for the New Age, an ex-professor of history speaks: The Nixon administration is the most morally bankrupt administration in the entire history of our country...
...However, what occurs when the behaviorist is challenged to prove his assertions...
...this the behaviorist does not sufficiently take into account...
...Although it is impossible to claim that he was free in Hobbes' sense, Paul, according to proponents of the third meaning of freedom, was indeed a free man...
...Does he not, in fact, engage in activities, in principled behavior...
...The behaviorist contends that there are no activities (e.g., the utilization of our rationality) and that there is no such thing as principled behavior (i.e., behavior that is influenced by consciously entertained generalizations), since man's behavior, he further asserts, results from processes outside of his control...
...As a result, he had to accept the loathsome consequences...
...It is important to note, however, that holding to one meaning of freedom does not preclude one from holding to other senses as well...
...Whom the gods destroy they first make mad"- Euripides Current Wisdom STRAIGHT SKINNY The illustrious New Republic digs up another disturbing bit of information on Washington in The Age of Nixon: White House aide Charles Colson, whom speculation has linked to the Watergate affair, was a captain in the Marines...
...Mrs...
...In fact, it is my view that Adler's three senses of freedom are vitally interrelated...
...We need a humane America...
...Nixon and her daughter can only be regarded as political blasphemy...
...If you see that blacks are so bad off, and you refuse to admit that they are being discriminated against, you have to believe that they are bad off because they are inferior...
...Senator and Doctor of Philosophy, exhibits his abundant knowledge of political philosophy: I just deny this left and right and center nonsense...
...Senator George McGovern HURRICANE HUBERT CBS records the fortissimo sound of Senator Humphrey gusting through the spring primaries: We don't need a rich America, we need a decent America...
...Is it right-wing to be against pollution...
...And unless the individual possesses the inherent power to choose among alternatives, he cannot become truly virtuous, for the meaning of virtue resides in the free choice of good over evil.ning of virtue resides in the free choice of good over evil...
...Saint Paul, for example, was warned that if he continued preaching he would be sent to prison...
...This is a shocking book...
...The Chicago Tribune POLITICAL PRISONERS Another political prisoner, Mrs...
...Sam Adams was correct when he said that "the truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought...
...By engaging in these activities the behaviorist-by his own behavior-refutes his own elaborate theories...
...Clifford Irving, spouse of the modern Boswell, delivers a touching exordium before being clapped into a Swiss Calaboose...
...I don't know what left and right are...
...The absence of external impediments facilitates the implementation of courses of action freely decided upon by the individual...
...There is no black escape from that imprisoning white judgment...
...Is it left to be against this stupid war...
...Louis, where she was injured on opening night about midway thru her performance to a packed house -12,000 persons - at the Municipal Opera...
...I haven't had one single voter since I've been campaigning in fifteen months, come up to me and say, I'm against you because you are not a centrist...
...Between junkets to old folks' homes and schools for the blind, Mrs...
...The New York Post THE SEX OF POLITICS World history as viewed through the puffy eyes of Sydney J. Harris, columnist and sexual psychopath: Since political power goes to those who crave it and combat for it, and since those who crave it (in my opinion) are enjoying it as a substitute for the erotic pleasure they cannot achieve, it is hardly surprising that most leaders have plunged their nations into bloodbaths with dismaying regularity throughout the centuries...
...We have to remember that for any theory to have a chance to validate its truth-claims, it must allow for a defense...
...I've got a helluva flap on the head, and I guess my brains are all addled," she said in a typical Ann Mil-lerism, for which she is famous...
...The obvious answer is: Yes, for if the behaviorist is to validate his point of view, he must search for evidence, appeal to the norms of inquiry, consult the principles of logic...
...I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people...
...We ought not to remain complacent as the scientific hubris which manifests itself in such pernicious movements as positivism and behaviorism rejects the "divine spark" within man...
...We need a just America...
...Hubert Humphrey CBS News April 21...
...And we need an America that's proud...
...The New Republic UNCOMMON WISDOM Hardheaded Political Analysis by Sydney J. Harris, a savant and dabbler in make-believe: If there were some way we could examine the private lives of public men - with a sort of psychic X-ray - I think we would discover that the loving faculty in them had been dammed up and diverted into channels that ran toward power and position and conquest...
...The Chicago Daily News GOW (continued from page 6) that the value of science is not a scientific fact, and that he, too, makes use of the values of logic and epistemology...
...Go on out and help me win this election, and there will be a new day in America for every American, I guarantee to you...
Vol. 6 • December 1972 • No. 3
