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... began , as has been pointed out elsewhere , in 1947 with the ap- pointment of a Board of Editors under the leadership of Robert M. Hutchins . It took on a new seriousness and a new immediacy a few years later , when innova- tive ...
... began , as has been pointed out elsewhere , in 1947 with the ap- pointment of a Board of Editors under the leadership of Robert M. Hutchins . It took on a new seriousness and a new immediacy a few years later , when innova- tive ...
Page 206
... began to drift away . " Let's go home , " I said to my companion . From that mo- ment I think I began to grow up . " Papa , " I said in the evening by the oil lamp in our kitchen . " Tell me how men got here . " Papa paused . Like many ...
... began to drift away . " Let's go home , " I said to my companion . From that mo- ment I think I began to grow up . " Papa , " I said in the evening by the oil lamp in our kitchen . " Tell me how men got here . " Papa paused . Like many ...
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tion became current , a vast change began to pass over Western thought . Man's conception of himself and his world began to alter beyond recall . " " Tis all in pieces , all coherence gone , " exclaimed the poet John Donne , Bacon's ...
tion became current , a vast change began to pass over Western thought . Man's conception of himself and his world began to alter beyond recall . " " Tis all in pieces , all coherence gone , " exclaimed the poet John Donne , Bacon's ...
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