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Today's Obituaries
Jul. 22nd, 2009 08:59 amThe NYTimes has a fascinating range of obituaries today:
* John S. Barry - executive behind the spread of WD-40. I most often use it for stain removal. What do you use it for? An excellent answer to the question, "What did the space race do for you?"
* Sidney W. Bijou - Skinnerian child psychologist who spearheaded the idea of 'time out.'
* Leszek Kolakowski - Polish philosopher whose critique of Communism helped inspire the Polish solidarity movement:
His most influential work, the three-volume 'Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution,' published in the 1970s, was a history and critique that called the philosophy 'the greatest fantasy of our century.' He argued that Stalinism was not a perversion of Marxist thought, but rather its natural conclusion.
* John S. Barry - executive behind the spread of WD-40. I most often use it for stain removal. What do you use it for? An excellent answer to the question, "What did the space race do for you?"
* Sidney W. Bijou - Skinnerian child psychologist who spearheaded the idea of 'time out.'
* Leszek Kolakowski - Polish philosopher whose critique of Communism helped inspire the Polish solidarity movement:
His most influential work, the three-volume 'Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution,' published in the 1970s, was a history and critique that called the philosophy 'the greatest fantasy of our century.' He argued that Stalinism was not a perversion of Marxist thought, but rather its natural conclusion.
