Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With such a set-up, small wonder that Harvard lays claim to being one of the cultural centers of the nation. As a reservoir of abstract learning, with libraries, laboratories and learned men, she holds a definite trust, both in perpetuating past scholarship and in stimulating the arts and sciences for present day benefits to humanity. A glance at Harvard's contributions to industrial life, for instance, bears striking witness to the value of scientific investigation to the national economy. And most important of all are the men, schooled in the healthy student life or trained professionally in graduate work...
Social equality "for Negroes, in the abstract, is achieved in the North by the simple process of passing laws guaranteeing Blacks the right to demand admission to all theatres, hotels, restaurants, beauty parlors, etc. New York, Illinois and Ohio have long had such laws against Jim Crowism. Pennsylvania got one when Democratic Governor Earle took office (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). But nowhere, as most intelligent Negroes admit, art: such laws consistently enforced against the strong but silent sentiment of the White majority opposed to close social contact with Blacks. When a bumptious blackamoor attempts to invoke such a statute...
...cross section in its rigid form has been no more successful than any other attempt to regiment sociability. In the abstract the ideal of making it possible for men of all stations and classes to mingle, even if only with the measured cordiality of a Friday evening at the Somerset, has a certain nobility of tone which permits no contradiction. As it has worked out, whether the fault of University Hall or the student body, more hostility and disappointment than conviviality have resulted...
What maddens relief-men more than abstract ideas about capitalism and the class war is the ever-present specter of the official axe. Life on the dole is no career of social security at best. But when funds are bounced around from project to project with the hit-and-miss efficiency of startled rabbits, and workers are fired in Manhattan and hired in Brooklyn at the same moment, those whose life blood depends on federal cash rise up in righteous anger at their treatment...
...flag of any extreme tendency-neither a White dictatorship nor a Red dictatorship! The Paraguayan State will be neither Communist. Fascist nor Nazi. It will, however, take advantage of the experiences of every other country in the world! I am a democrat. But for us democracy is not an abstract formula. We shall have a true democracy of workers and peasants, who are the eternal victims of their economic weakness and their spiritual poverty, only when they feel themselves protected and assisted by the State and by a political party of their own and when the nation enters into full...