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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1961
Page
8
Walter Baum asks Dr. Adler about solitude and its value. The letter discusses solitude as a state of meditation and spiritual peace versus loneliness and isolation, tracing ideas from Aristotle on the good and bad senses of being alone.
Readers are invited to write a 150 word letter to Dr. Mortimer J. Adler for a chance to win a five volume set of the Great Book of the Western World. Three prizes weekly for letters that best engage an intellectual question.
The narrator recalls autumn in Italy and resists friends urging a screening of La Dolce Vita. He confronts rumors of the film as a provocative hymn to vice and chooses to skip the movie, continuing a debate about taste, virtue, and conversation after returning to New York.
A 1961 film critique notes a New York premiere shaken by preconceptions, as the writer shifts from anti sensationalism to praise for Fellini's satire of Rome's upper class. The piece links insolence to social critique, comparing the director's work to a modern morality play that condemns sin and decadence.
Quote collection contrasts Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Samuel Johnson on independent thought and optimism. Johnson’s remark about a man worth a thousand pounds a year highlights the value of a bright outlook.
Washington columnist recalls Thurman Arnold nicknamed the most untidy man in Washington. The Wyoming native and Princeton student led landmark antitrust prosecutions, including Standard Oil, railroad divestitures, and moves against GM Ford and Chrysler. His clashes with Roosevelt halted Pan American cases, and he’d soon join the Court of Appeals.
The Court faces whether union dues from workers in a union shop may fund political and legislative activities. The Street and Looper case challenges the Railway Labor Act's use of dues for politics, with unions arguing such activities are essential to collective bargaining and member welfare. A decision could uphold or curb current union lobbying and political education financed by dues.
A reader asks about an article on men helping with housework and its effect on marriage. George responds that the piece opposed men shirking chores and notes a sharp woman could use it to push the dishes.
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