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unusual facts about Mortimer J. Adler


Mortimer J. Adler

Amy A. Kass, "Radical Conservatives for a Liberal Education" (Ph.D. diss., 1973).


Cy A. Adler

In early December, 1982, Adler placed an ad in the Voice announcing a public walk along the Hudson River from Battery Park to Riverside Park, which at the time consisted largely of docking facilities abandoned due to Containerization.

For his effort to see to completion a park stretching the entire length of the Hudson River shore of the island of Manhattan, Adler was recognized by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and former US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

George J. Adler

Both of these textbooks are in effect editions of the language textbooks of Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff.

Further, Leon Howard points out that Adler may well serve as the model for Bartleby in Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener, a story of Wall Street.

H. G. Adler

Writing in the Financial Times Simon Schama says that Adler's work deserves a place beside other twentieth century witnesses of the concentration camps such as Primo Levi and Solzhenitsyn.

To escape the impending Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, Adler fled to London in February 1947, where he married a close friend from Prague, the sculptor Bettina Gross, with whom he fathered his only child Jeremy Adler.

Joanna P. Adler

In 1995, Adler has won Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for The Boys in the Basement.

John R. Adler

From 1980 to 1987 he did a neurosurgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital and a radiosurgery fellowship at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, where he worked with Lars Leksell.

Jonathan H. Adler

Before becoming an academic, Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Adler supported former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson in the 2008 presidential election.

Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science

# Redwoods Are the Tallest Trees in the World, David A. Adler

Normative ethics

There has been a significant revival of virtue ethics in the past half-century, through the work of such philosophers as G. E. M. Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Alasdair Macintyre, Mortimer J. Adler, Jacques Maritain, Yves Simon, and Rosalind Hursthouse.

Radiosurgery

It was invented by John R. Adler, a Stanford University Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology and Russell and Peter Schonberg at SCHONBERG RESEARCH, and is sold by the Accuray company, located in Sunnyvale, California.


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