A Great Idea at the Time
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Preamble to
Constructivism
Container Corporation of America
Conversation, The
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Core curriculum
Core wars
Cousin Bette (Balzac)
Cousins, Norman
Cragg, Dick
Creature from the Black Lagoon, The
Critique of Pure Reason, The (Kant)
Crito (Plato)
Croquet match, St. John’s-Naval Academy (photo)
Cross, Timothy
Crusoe, Robinson
Culture wars, Great Books and
Dana, Richard Henry
Dante Alighieri
Danton, Ray
Dart
Dartmouth Review
Darwin, Charles sexuality and
David Copperfield (Dickens)
Death in Venice, A (Mann)
Decameron (Boccaccio)
Declaration of Independence, The
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon)
Dell, George
Delphi
Democracy in America (Tocqueville)
Denby, David
Department of Physical Culture and Athletics (Chicago)
Descartes, Rene
Descent of Man, The (Darwin)
Dewey, John
Adler and
Harper and
Hutchins and
knowledge/doing and
philosophy of
Progressive Education and
Diagrammatics (Hutchins and Hutchins)
Dialectic (Adler)
Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences (Galileo)
Diary of Love, The (Hutchins)
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Emily
Dictionary of 20th Century American Philosophy, Adler and
Diderot, Denis
Dilthey, Wilhelm
Dink, Michael: on St. John’s
Dirda, Michael
Directed Studies (Yale)
Discourses, The (Epictetus)
Diseases of the Nervous System
Divine Comedy, The (Dante)
Dobzhansky, Theodosius
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Douglas, William O.
Dryden, John
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Duns Scotus
Durant, Ann
Durant, Will
Dzuback, Mary Ann
Earle, Robert
Ecologues, The (Virgil)
Economics Department (Chicago)
Eddington, Arthur
Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life (Kronman)
Edward the Prince of Wales (Edward VII)
Eggers, Dave
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
El Parthenon
Elements of Chemistry (Lavoisier)
Elements, The (Euclid),
Eliot, Charles
criticism of
curriculum of
Eliot, Charles (continued)
Harvard Classics and
Hutchins on
Kirsch on
reading plan by
Eliot, George
Eliot, T. S.
Elizabeth, Queen
Ellison, Ralph
Emma (Austen),
Encheiridion (Epictetus)
Encyclopedia Britannica
“Energy Policies and the International System” (Hutchins)
Engels, Friedrich
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An (Hume)
Epictetus
Epistemology of the Closet (Sedgwick)
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Kepler)
Epstein, Joseph
Erasmus, Desiderius:
Erskine, John
on Britannica
death of
General Honors and
Great Books and
Hutchins and
selection committee and
shared inquiry and
Socratic pedagogy and
Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An (Locke)
Essays (Montaigne)
Essays in Sociology (Weber)
Ethics (Aristotle)
Euclid
Euripides
Everett, Russell
Everybody’s Autobiography (Stein)
Experimental Researches in Electricity (Faraday)
Fadiman, Clifton
on Benton
criticism of
Great Books and
People’s Institute and
teaching by
Fallon, Stephen
Fanon, Frantz
Faraday, Michael
Farrar, Frederic William
Fat Men’s Great Book Class
Faulkner, William
Faust (Goethe)
Faust, Clarence: selection committee and
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Thompson)
Fear and Trembling (Kierkegaard)
Federal Communications Commission, Hutchins and
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Federalist Papers, The (Hamilton, Madison, and Jay)
Feldman, Sam
Fermi, Enrico
Field, Marshall
Field, Marshall, Jr.
Fielding, Henry
Finn, Huckleberry
Fire Next Time, The (Baldwin)
Firing Line
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flaubert, Gustave
Food for the soul (New Yorker) (fig.)
Ford, Henry
Ford Foundation, Hutchins and
Fortune magazine
Foucault, Michel
Fourier, Jean Baptiste
Fourier, Joseph
Frazer, James
Freud, Sigmund
discussing
Schur and
Friedman, Milton
“Friendship of Books, The” (Maurice)
Frost, Robert
FTC. See Federal Trade Commission
Fund for the Republic
“Future of an Illusion, The” (Freud)
Gadfly, The (GBF)
Gadfly, The (St. John’s)
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Galen
Galileo
Game, The(photo)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Rabelais) (Rabelais)
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Gateway to the Great Books
Gay, Peter
“GB Awareness Study,” 110
GBBW. See Great Books of the Western World
Genealogy of Morals, The (Nietzsche)
“General Electric College Bowl” (TV show), Whitehead and
General Honors (Columbia)
Geometry, The (Descartes)
Georgics, The (Virgil)
Gettysburg Address
Gibbon, Edward
Gilbert, William
Gilgamesh
Gilkey, Charles Whitney
Gish, Lillian
Go East, Young Man (Douglas), quote from
“God and the Professors” (Adler)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goldberg, Rube
Golden Bough (Frazer)
Graham, Kay
Graham School, Basic Program of
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck)
Gray, Hanna
Great Books(photo) (photo)
choosing
claims of
criticism of
end of
“Founders Edition” of
growth of
history of
image of
in libraries
relaunching
Great Books Foundation
criticism of
cultural wing-dings by
growth of
launching of
newsletter of
problems for
Great Books groups
attending
described
spread of
survey of
“Great Books in Today’s World, The” (Adler)
Great Books movement influence of interpretation and
Great Books of the Western World (GBWW)
history of
poking fun at
problems for
profits on
publication of
sales of
sequel to
unreadability of
Great Books selection committee (photo)
Great Books Summer Program
Great Books week
Great Books weekends
Great Conversation
“Great Conversation, The” (Hutchins)
Great Depression, impact of
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald)
Great Ideas(photo) Hutchins and
Great Ideas from the Great Books
“Great Ideas from the Great Books” (Adler)
“Great Ideas Online, The,” 140
Great Ideas Today, The
Great Men’s Fat Book Class
Groupthink
“Growing Vegetables” (Barr)
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)
Gwinn, Robert
Hamilton, Alexander
Hamilton, Ian
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
“Handbook” (Epictetus)
Happiness, Death and the Remainder of Life (Lear)
Harden, Kenneth
on FTC charges
sales and
Hardy, G. H.
Hardy, Thomas
Harmonies of the World, The (Kepler),
Harper, Paul
Harper, William Rainey
Harris, Sydney
Hart, John
Harty, Rosemary: on Barr
Harvard Classics
competition with
reading program by
Harvey, Michael
Harvey, William
“Have You Read 100 Great Books” (pamphlet)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Hegel, G. W. F.
Heidegger, Martin
Heilbrunn, Jacob
Heisenberg, Werner
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry Esmond (Thackeray)
Herodotus
Herschel
Hertz, George
“Heterosexuals—the Silent Majority” (Call)
Higher Learning in America, The (Hutchins)
Highet, Gilbert
Hilton, Conrad
Himmelfarb, Gertrude
Hippocrates
Histories, The (Tacitus)
History, The (Herodotus)
History of the Peloponnesian War, The (Thucydides)
Hitler, Adolf
Hobbes, Thomas sexuality and
Hobson, H. A.
Hoffa, Jimmy
Holquist, Michael
Homer
Horace
House Un-American Activities Committee
How to Read a Book (Adler)
“How to Watch Television” (TV show), Adler and
Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
Huizinga, Johan
Hume, David
Hummingbird’s Daughter, The (Urrea)
Hunt, H. L.
Hutchins, Franja
Hutchins, Maude(photo) book by
criticism of
divorce and
poetry by
Hutchins, Robert Maynard (photo) (photo)(photo) (photo)
Adler and
bravery of
citizen-readers and
classics and
criticism of
curriculum and
death of
divorce and
on education
essay by
facts and
Great Books and
reforms by
rumors about
selection committee and
senior-class oration by
teaching by
on wisdom/metaphysics
youth of
Hutchins, Vesta
Hutchins Plan. See New Plan
Huxley, Aldous
Huygens, Christian
Hyland, Thomas(photo) library of
Hyman, Sidney
on Adler
on Benton
Hutchins and
Ibsen, Henrik
Idexicon, The
Iliad, The (Homer)
Imitation of Christ (Kempis)
Information Please
Institutes of the Christian Religion (Calvin)
Interpretation of Dreams, The (Freud)
Introduction to Arithmetic (Nichomachus of Gerasa)
“Invitation to Learning” (CBS)
Jackson, Jesse(photo)
James, Henry
James, William
Janson, Jack
Jay, John
Jet, Adler in
Johnson, Dr.
Johnson, William
Jowett, Benjamin
Joyce, James
Jung, Carl Gustav
Justinian
Kafka, Franz
Kahn, Jonathon
Kamena, John
Kant, Immanuel
Kass, Amy Apfel
Keepers of the Flame, The (Hamilton)
Kempis, Thomas à
Kennan, George
Kennedy, Robert
Kennelly, Martin
Kepler, Johannes
Kestnbaum, Meyer
Keynes, J. M.
Khrushchev, Nikita
Kierkegaard, Søren
Kimpton, Lawrence
King of Lies, The (Hart)
Kirsch, Adam
Kitchen Garden Cookbook, The: Barr in
Kronman, Anthony
Lacy, Tim
Ladies’ Home Journal
Langtry, Lillie
Lavoisier, Antoine
Lawrence, D. H.
Laws (Plato)
Lear, Jonathan
Lectures on Physics (Feynman)
Lee, Rebecca
Lenin, Vladimir
Leonard, John
Les Pensées (Pascal)
Levi-Strauss, Claude
Leviathan (Hobbes)
Levin, Richard
Levine, Jane
Lewis, Sinclair
Liberal Arts, Inc.
Liberty Fund, Great Books and
Library of Congress
Liebling, A. J.
Life magazine
Life of Johnson, The (Boswell)
Lincoln, Abraham
Lippman, Walter: on St. John’s
Literary Humanities (LitHum) (Columbia)
Little Dorrit (Dickens)
Lives, The (Plutarch)
Locke, John
Lolita (Nabokov)
Lonigan, Studs
Los Angeles Times
Lost Lady, A (Cather)
Lowell, Robert
Lubbock, John
Luce, Clare Booth
Luce, Henry
Lucretius
Lyell, Charles
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
MacDonald, Dwight
Machiavelli, Niccolo
MacKinnon, Catharine
MacLeish, Archibald: selection committee and
Madison, John
Magic Mountain, The (Mann)
Maistrellis, Nick
Making of Middlebrow Culture, The (Rubin)
Man in Full, A (Wolfe)
Manhattan Institute, classical curricula and
Manhattan Project
Mann, Thomas
Mansfield, Harvey
Marcus Aurelius
Marplan-Chicago, study by
Martin, Everett Dean
Marx, Karl
“Masscult and Midcult” (MacDonald)
Masserman, Jules
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Newton),
Maurice, F. D.
Mayer, Martin
May
er, Milton(photo)
on Adler
Hutchins and
McArthur, Benjamin
McCarthy, Elma
McCarthy, Joseph
McCormick, Robert
McElroy, George
McKeon, Richard
McLuhan, Marshall
McNamara, Robert
McNeill, William
Mead, George Herbert
Meditations (Descartes)
Meditations, The (Marcus Aurelius)
Meiklejohn, Alexander
Mein Kampf (Hitler)
Mellon, Paul
Melville, Herman
Menand, Louis
Mencken, H. L.
“Metamorphoses” (Ovid)
Metamorphosis (Kafka)
Metaphysical Club, The (Menand)
Meyer, Adolph
Meyer, Katherine. See Graham, Kay
Middlemarch (Eliot),
Mill, John Stuart autobiography of
Milton, John
Mitchell, Stephen: Gilgamesh and
Moby-Dick (Melville)
Modern Language Association
Molière
Montaigne, Michel de
Montas, Roosevelt
Montesquieu, Baron de
Moorhead, Hugh
Morgenstern, W. V.
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Morris, John
Morris, Sydney
Morris, William
Mother Courage (Brecht)
Mourning Becomes Electra (O’Neill)
Moyers, Bill
Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions (Agresto)
Multiculturalism
Murder on the Orient Express (Christie)
Murphy, Tim
Murrow, Edward R.
My Life as a Teacher (Erskine)
Nabokov, Vladimir
National Association of Scholars, press release by
National Cash Register, Benton and
National Foundation for Psychiatric Research (Northwestern)
National Opinion Research Center (Chicago), survey by
National Review, Great Ideas and
National Security Agency
Nero
New Atlantis, The (Bacon)
New Directions Press, Hutchins and
New England Great Books Council
New Plan
New Program
New York Public Library
New York Sun, Adler and
New York Times
core wars and
on Great Books
New Yorker magazine
cartoon from(fig.)
Great Books and
Hutchins in
Newberry Library
Newman, Cardinal
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nichomachean Ethics, The (Aristotle)
Nichomachus of Gerasa
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Northwestern University, proposed merger with
Norton, Charles Eliot
Notre Dame University, Great Books and
Oath, The (Hippocrates)
Oberlin College
Odyssey, The (Homer)
Oedipus
Oedipus cycle (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex Japanese film version of
Office of Strategic Services
Okrent, John
Old Dominion Foundation