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- DIED. Sidney Hook, 86, influential, outspoken American
- political philosopher and anti-Communist; in Stanford, Calif.
- A disciple of the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey at Columbia
- University and a faculty member there for 42 years, Hook, a
- Marxist scholar, was among the earliest critics of Stalinism.
- His opposition to extremism in any form was a major theme in his
- 1987 autobiography, Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th
- Century.
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