Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highest realization of their possibilities. Nationalism in music is for him a fallacy, since music is so universal as to be above political cr even racial boundaries. And Wagner's supreme failure was in his attempt to make music an auxiliary to drama, or to tie the abstract to the particular. Although the essays are slight in scope, their influence has already been great...
MUSIC in its purity is so abstract an art that criticism of it either has been made up of meaningless superlatives and half understood psychological terms, or has become so technical that it is of little use to the layman; and often, as in the comments on symphony programs, it has become a hopeless hodge-podge of the two. With a few exceptions, critics have lacked a training broad enough to comprehend the rational place of music among the other arts and its true relation to life. In fact, musical criticism, especially in the last few years, has been emotional...
...reflection upon the truth of that cause embraced by the men who took part in the Great War, appeared in the columns of Monday's CRIMSON. Its ardent desire to foster our rapidly-developing modern attitude toward war confused somewhat irrationally that abstract attitude toward war with the very actual inspiration that carried these men forth. It is devoutly to be hoped that we shall all, in time, appreciate the futility of war even if we cannot appreciate its cruelty. But we may hope with almost equal fervor that our disdain for war itself be not transmuted into disdain...
...rational political philosophy. If a man goes out from college into politics the pressure of circumstance and of immediate problems may prevent his ever attaining to an understanding of the essentials of which everyday politics are the outward expression. If he has studied political ideas at college, although their abstract perfection may be lost in actual life, yet he has the critical background necessary for effective action. Even if college men do not go into politics their training in political theory will make them intelligent citizens capable of exerting a healthy influence. If politics are ever to be constructed...
...sharp, tangible issues to work with?the Brown Derby,the Noble Experiment, the Church in Poli tics, Raddio, Two Cars in Every Garage?a Chicken in Every Pot. This year the election turns on larger but less concrete issues. At work below the surface are economic forces too abstract and complex for the average cartoonist to depict?the Gold Standard, War Debts, a Balanced Budget, 50¢ wheat, "Pork," "Panic," Credit Inflation, a Change. The Republicans are fighting a defensive battle on a Record that does not lend itself to easy lampooning. Ridicule of the Democratic attack has been mostly superficial...