Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from stressing the importance of facility in the use of English, Dean James M. Landis of the Law School suggests history, philosophy, and literature as essential to a knowledge of human history; mathematics as excellent discipline in handling abstract ideas; familiarity with the scientific method; and, finally, some research into original sources, so that the student "will already have lost complete reverence for the printed page" by the time he enters the Law School...
...this section of the country we have never had much confidence in the Government of the Republic of Mexico. To us, South American Governments seem equally unreliable. They will take all the credits we give them and then double-cross us. South Americans are not followers of abstract ideals-they are realists. Therefore, any lasting solidarity between North and South America is an impractical dream-unless we take a leaf from Hitler's book and go in for conquest or domination. The only sensible and practical course that remains for us as a nation is to stop throwing...
...Whether we like it or not, the time for talking in terms of abstract idealism is past. This is not cowardice or isolationism, but simply a realistic facing of the facts as they now exist. To the people of the Rocky Mountain west, Democracy means after all mainly the preservation of our own personal freedom and our homes. We cannot get along without the rest of the world and we know it, but we fail to see that we cannot try to adapt ourselves to a changing world and still keep our own faith in those particulars which are important...
...secured debt deserves and should expect searching examination into the justification for its policy." Eicher's dissent overlooked the fact that Atlas sits on both sides of the table in Ogden Corp.; that, from a practical standpoint, the deal is largely bookkeeping. But he was cleaving to an abstract principle-the evils of debt-that the rest of SEC has trumpeted in the past, will doubtless trumpet again in other, less peculiar cases in the future...
...correct. You wrote that "at the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases." Had you examined my articles in the magazine you would have seen that I have expressed pleasure in a great many types of art, from Picasso, Hartung, Demuth, and American abstract painters to certain operas of Strauss and the dancing of Shankar. I should judge that perhaps 80% of my articles have been laudatory (favorable criticisms upon my own work certainly add up to much less than...