User:KYPark/1959

Noam Chomsky

A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior

Language, 35(1): pp. 26-58

• Cf. allegedly contributed to the "cognitive revolution"
• Cf. B. F. Skinner (1957), Verbal Behavior

Richard Condon

The Manchurian Candidate

thriller novel, adapted into films in 1962 and 2004, banned in communist states "for political reasons," and condemned by the American Legion

Bing Crosby

How the West Was Won

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RCA Victor Records

• Cf. How the West Was Won (disambiguation)
• Cf.
  Arthur Clarke (1992)

Ernest Gellner

Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology

Gollancz, London; Beacon, Boston

• See also: correspondence in The Times, 10 November to 23 November 1959
• Ernest Gellner/Words and Things

Stuart Hampshire

Thought and Action

• It propounded an
  moral philosophy
  from its focus on the logical properties of moral statements to what he considered the crucial question of moral problems as they present themselves to us as practical agents.

Charles Snow

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution

Rede Lecture

• He argued that the breakdown of communication between the "two cultures" of modern society - the sciences and the humanities - was a major hindrance to solving the world`s problems.
• Frank Leavis (1962) Two Cultures?