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DEAR EDITOR Readers Praise Article On Public Reaction to TV TV in its present development is my pet disgust. I want to read every word criticizing its technique, and every word regarding...
...Furthermore, Spinozism or pantheism—a polite word for atheism, according to Schopenhauer...
...Chamberlin don't seem to offer very much in that connection...
...Dulles and Mr...
...Westbury, N. Y. Henry Addis...
...I want to read every word criticizing its technique, and every word regarding possible reform...
...However, I feel that Mr...
...Bernays hasn't sufficiently stressed the possibility of public action in getting less obnoxious commercials...
...Nor do I see where Nehru can be written off as easily as Mr...
...comes first and not second...
...To everything he says I should like to add "amen...
...Docs Mr...
...and USSR, seem to have produced a special type...
...Previous periods of uncertainty and social change have produced the rebel and reactionary, the romanticist and traditionalist...
...Incidentally, I liked the cartoon accompanying the article...
...Let's have more of that...
...New York City Mark Starr Thank you for printing the excellent article by C. E. Ayres...
...For space reasons, however, we prefer letters under 300 words...
...I was also surprised to learn that "our system of government is based on the recognition that man's first allegiance is not to the state, but to God...
...Nehru must be won, not forgotten...
...I would recommend to Professor Ayres that he read (or re-read) Apologia Pro Vita Sua and Idea of a University...
...Chamberlin with Senator McCarthy when each opposes Allied trade with the Soviets...
...At a time when definitive solutions have been temporarily postponed, these people have reached the pinnacle of power...
...Few men in history have been as systematic and reflective as was Newman in his life-long search for certitude...
...Jesus himself drove a wedge when he declared: "Render unto God what is God's, and unto Caesar what is Caesar's...
...I agree with your correspondent that no political system should be deified: also, that there is no such thing as a "true religion of secularism.'" But I do not agree that "hells on earth" were created by "driving wedges between man's responsibility to the state and his responsibility to God...
...They are easily recognized by their uniform meticulous informality...
...I don't think that any of them claimed that he was, like the German Kaiser, "mit Gott" In fact, Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson fought and wrote against clerical rule...
...a religious or philosophical belief is a strictly private matter...
...Chamberlin want to forget about India (just because he disagrees with Nehru) in the same way the retarded liberals forgot The New Leader welcomes readers' comment, regardless of point of view...
...Thus, at precisely the wrong time, a new breed has established its hegemony over American intellectual life...
...has many thousands of adherents among the educated...
...These are America's dominant peacocks in 1954...
...They are hep to all that is going on, contemptuous of extremes, devoted to the slick phrase...
...Richard Lowe Disturbed by Attitude of Present-Day Intellectuals There is a singular absence of response to issues of the day from young intellectuals, and, even more disturbing, the rebels of the '30s are preoccupied with personal comforts and income...
...We depend on them to lead us against the dragons, but peacocks are for display not battle...
...I frankly don't believe in the self-regulatory capacities of businesses that are doing very well as they are...
...The New Leader, June 21], says that Cardinal Newman was "led...
...Harrisburg, Pa...
...He may be described by the definition given to the chameleon in...
...by other forms of experience quite distinct from systematic inquiry and reflection...
...Michael Williams I want to congratulate you for publishing Edward L. Bernays's article on TV commercials...
...Lippmann is correct when he says that the State Department treats British ties with India far too lightly...
...Unfortunately, most people do not write letters, and the voice of the public, for whose supposed benefit the radio and TV industry and the FCC exist, remains practically unheard...
...Lippmann is hardly the same sort of individual...
...Denver P. L. Duffy Readers Comment Pro and Con On Secularism in Education C. E. Ayres, in his plea for more secularism in education ["Can Education Stay Secular...
...I am delighted that your magazine has taken up the cudgels against it ["The Public Fights TV Commercials," by Edward L. Bernays, The New Leader, June 7...
...about China (just because they disliked Chiang...
...Freedom of religion implies that one does not have to be bound by any, or even acknowledge the existence of a God...
...Perry, as Chamberlin points out, is usually way off base when it comes to Communism, and most of his errors come under the same heading: congenital woolliness...
...I am tired of magazine articles which tell the public that our schools and colleges are going to the dogs, and was refreshed to read Professor Ayres's plea for greater stress on a secularistic, humanistic approach to education...
...Richmond C. C. Hall Many thanks for the excellent piece by C. E. Ayres...
...New York City Joseph G. Caro Rejects Chamberlin's Criticism Of Articles by Walter Lippmann I find it manifestly unfair of William Henry Chamberlin to link Walter Lippmann with Ralph Barton Perry [The New Leader, June 14...
...He clearly states a viewpoint that too many people seem to shy away from in this period of history when supernaturalism and clericalism are so respectable and secularism tends to be identified with Communism—or, at any rate, un-Americanism...
...any standard dictionary: "They are characterized by the greatly developed power of changing the color of the skin and a projectile tongue...
...I am sure that, if Professor Ayres had acquainted himself more fully with Newman's life or delved into his writings a little more deeply, he would never have made that statement...
...Where and when shall we get Jasons...
...1 am sure he will be amply rewarded by a writer whom many critics consider the greatest English literary stylist of the nineteenth century...
...Our own times, colored by the great stalemate between the U.S...
...though he may be as often wrong as right, his is a flexible, independent mind, and his arguments must be taken on their merits...
...Unless we renounce our lazy absentee ownership of the airways and organize ourselves into effective listener groups that appear in force at FCC hearings, we will get nowhere...
...I am free to become a Buddhist, and Buddhism has no God...
...To link Lippmann with Perry when each happens to find the State Department negative is no better than linking Mr...
...I always thought that our Founding Fathers leaned to the secular side, although they may have used some pious phrases occasionally to satisfy the religionists...
...the question is the best means to do so...
...Chamberlin does...
...I am glad your magazine took the initiative in telling us the why and wherefore of this situation, instead of merely letting off steam about it...
...Therefore, I would maintain that one's allegiance to the U.S...
...It was a very valuable contribution to clarity of thought about secular education...
...Austin, Texas Dale S. Hi??cbee I was pretty sure that someone would object to C. E. Ayres's article, and I was not disappointed, for I have just read the letter by Lawrence T. King in the June 28 New Leader...
...Westport, Conn...
...Smooth, hard and cynical, they can be found everywhere...
...TV commercials will remain as offensive as they are, or get worse...
Vol. 37 • July 1954 • No. 28
