Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work out technical procedures by means of which the modern state can balance, equalize, neutralize, offset, correct the private judgments of masses of individuals. This is what I mean by a Compensated Economy and the method of free collectivism. . . . If is a conception which is not spun out of abstract theory . . . It is the method of freedom. The authority of the government is used to assist men in maintaining the security of an ordered life. The state, though it is powerful, is not the master of the people, but remains, as it must where there is liberty, their servant...
Fundamentally it is a question of which is the more important: abstract ideals or human lives. Do we live for the sake of living or because we in some modest way attempt to justify our existence? It appears that without the driving impulse of certain ideals and aims our lives would be drab and worthless. Individuals will fight to the bitter end for the ideals they cherish and nations will continue to do so by any means they see fit, by war if necessary. If Nazi Germany finds her ideals threatened by unsympathetic neighbors she will not hesitate to defend...
...field of Harvard publication, there is definite place for a fourth magazine. It should cover controversial topics of a sociological, political nature, collegiate and national, in a hard-hitting, strikingly readable style, somewhat in the manner of the New Republic or The Nation. It should not squabble in the abstract, rummage in the antique. It should be backed by a reputable organization, by a large enough group to guarantee its continuity and lend coherence to its columns. Indeed, it is to be marveled that the Harvard Liberal Club, which has been showing signs of rejuvenation recently, did not foresee...
...Spencer of the U. S. Public Health Service : "Dr. Bundesen and the Board of Health are to be congratulated on the promptness, aggressiveness and thoroughness with which the situation [epidemic] has been handled.'' Against Dr. Bundesen stood a report on Dr. Bundesen's actions issued in abstract last month by the Chicago Medical Soci ety. Charging him with "negligence'' and "petty politics," the Society, itself suspected of petty politics by many a Chicagoan, declared : "Physicians of Chicago have never approved the mixing of political ambitions with the serious matter of health protection...
...esay is unsatisfactory only in a certain inconclusiveness. It would have benefited by more careful definition and closer scrutiny of the abstract will-e-the-wisps which Galsworthy and his characters alike pursue. Its analysis of social questions is clear enough, but one would like to know as definitely as possible what is Galsworthy's idea of "the beauty and the loving in the world." Again, what is the peculiar disability that in spite of his recognition of the modern scene leaves him at a loss to resolve it either in his mind or in his art? If intellectual analysis...