Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very interesting teacher, quite new in university circles, and a brilliant speaker, now wields enormous influence. He is Professor Gundolf, the author of the best, indeed the first real book on Goethe; a fanatical supporter of personality as the determining factor in life and history. He opposes vigorously the abstract rationalism of the academic philosophy formerly taught at Heidelberg. The next in popularity is Professor Jaspers. College ethics prevent him from opposing too openly the Heidelberg tradition, but his philosophic system does so for him: it is based on psychology and a peculiar variety of metaphysics." Hear- Christian Herrmann...
...April 12 a special experiment will take place, in which a group of persons in France will endeavor to send to this country an abstract idea by thought transference...
...13th of February I sat in the salon at the piano. In came my mother and went to the grand. She began to play. Tomy question as to what she was playing she replied, with an abstract gaze, "Schubert's Lob der Tränen" (In Praise of Tears). A few minutes later the valet brought news that father was very ill. Never shall I forget how my mother dashed through the door. . . . When I saw her in later years at rehearsals the festival productions, representing roles as Kundry, Isolde, Sieglinde or Brünilde, my mind often reverted...
...concerned with the theological questions of any particular church. You care very little for the details of a controversy over the action of certain Bishops, or the heresy of a minister or even the division of a church. But most of you are deeply interested in religion in an abstract way." He concluded by saying that college men think for themselves, not about dogmas and theology, but about conceptions...
...perhaps trite to say that conditions have changed in South America since 1823. The age of European colonization has passed, and with it the necessity of protection for these "little sisters" by the United States. But peace and tranquility on the southern continent are still rather abstract ideals. The aftermath of the failure of the fifth Pan American Conference at Santiago to limit the armaments of Argentine, Brazil, and Chile has been a renewal of military and naval competition...