Comments on: 11.16.2008 New York Times Digest http://submittedforyourperusal.com/2008/11/16/11162008-new-york-times-digest/ Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:07:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gloria http://submittedforyourperusal.com/2008/11/16/11162008-new-york-times-digest/#comment-347 Gloria Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:25:00 +0000 http://mattthomas.wordpress.com/?p=448#comment-347 I like that Hyde had the courage to leave the University of Iowa, walk away from the unfulfilling academic life where he wasn't appreciated into an uncertain and insecure future where he found himself, his art and his genius. Lucky for us. What a Gift! I like that Hyde had the courage to leave the University of Iowa, walk away from the unfulfilling academic life where he wasn’t appreciated into an uncertain and insecure future where he found himself, his art and his genius. Lucky for us. What a Gift!

]]> By: Matt http://submittedforyourperusal.com/2008/11/16/11162008-new-york-times-digest/#comment-346 Matt Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:35:37 +0000 http://mattthomas.wordpress.com/?p=448#comment-346 Thanks, Max, for sharing your perspective. Thanks, Max, for sharing your perspective.

]]> By: Max Weismann http://submittedforyourperusal.com/2008/11/16/11162008-new-york-times-digest/#comment-345 Max Weismann Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:27:51 +0000 http://mattthomas.wordpress.com/?p=448#comment-345 RE: A Great Idea At The Time: The Rise, Fall, And Curious Afterlife of The Great Books by Alex Beam Argumentum ad Hominem The subtitle should have read, Every Negative Fact and Innuendo I Could Dredge Up Although he was not particularly unkind to me in the book, I found virtually every page to be a smart-alecky and snide diatribe of the worst order against the Great Books, Adler, Hutchins, et al. Plus the book is replete with errors of commission and omission. As an effective antidote, I prescribe Robert Hutchins' pithy essay, The Great Conversation. If the Great Books crusade is as bleak as Beam purports, then happily, not many will read his invective book. Max Weismann, President and co-founder with Mortimer Adler, Center for the Study of The Great Ideas Chairman, The Great Books Academy RE: A Great Idea At The Time: The Rise, Fall, And Curious Afterlife of The Great Books
by Alex Beam

Argumentum ad Hominem

The subtitle should have read, Every Negative Fact and Innuendo I Could Dredge Up

Although he was not particularly unkind to me in the book, I found virtually every page to be a smart-alecky and snide diatribe of the worst order against the Great Books, Adler, Hutchins, et al. Plus the book is replete with errors of commission and omission.

As an effective antidote, I prescribe Robert Hutchins’ pithy essay, The Great Conversation.

If the Great Books crusade is as bleak as Beam purports, then happily, not many will read his invective book.

Max Weismann,
President and co-founder with Mortimer Adler, Center for the Study of The Great Ideas
Chairman, The Great Books Academy

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