Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

Three days ago I mentioned an episode of The Jeffersons in which the etymology of the word "sincere" was discussed. I thought for a bit that I had tracked down the ep and that it was Season 2, Episode 4, "Harry and Daphne," which aired on October 4, 1975. Alas, though, I had focused on the wrong culprit. Harry never there discusses Daphne's sincerity at all, and the only etymological discussion involves the name Keller (which we're told means "cellar," -- big whoop.) If any reader of this blog can help me identify the episode where Harry or someone else DOES discuss "sincerity," I will be grateful.

The always-unpleasant spotlight on public exposure of plagiarism falls now on Matthew Whitaker, formerly a professo r at Arizona State University.  No, that isn't Whitaker pictured here. That's Sherman Helmsley as George Jefferson. More on Jefferson in a bit. An anonymous blogger, one with a laser-like focus on the issue of plagiarism, brought the matter of the plagiarized passages in a book 'authored' by Whitaker to the public's attention and, now that Whitaker has been demoted from full professor to associate professor, that blogger is taking a bow . One neat twist on this case: Whitaker had parlayed his academic prominence into a role with the City of Phoenix, AZ. He was supposed to help train that city's police officers to be culturally sensitive as they do their jobs. That contract is now at an end. The text in question is a history of "modern Black America" from the second world war to the presidency of Barack Obama, with the evocative...