Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only for himself that he cannot make the compromise with his inner self which marriage necessitates. This problem is worked out with skill and directness but in so doing Mr. Barry frequently forgets that his characters are human and cannot be shunted about like chess-men. There is an abstract mechanical quality to the play, an over emphasis of problem and serious disregard of essential human complexities. Few human beings can be resolved into one dominant characteristic and this is what happens to the people of "Bright Star...
...question of tutorial guidance probably receives more attention as an abstract issue than as a vital problem which every freshman sooner or later has to face squarely. One thinks of a tutor as a person who requires work at more or less regular intervals, but the student generally forgets that the tutorial session involves rather more than the mere giving and receiving of factual knowledge. Two minds must cooperate to the utmost if there is to be a real benefit to the student...
...Faith. To many a Protestant, the Catholic dogma of the Eucharist seems either too mystical to attempt to comprehend, or, if understood, too abstract a principle to rally great throngs of men and women. Essentially a Eucharistic Congress is a simple act of public corporate faith, centring in the great mystery of the real presence of Jesus Christ under the appearance of bread and wine. It also represents Catholicism openly on parade. To Catholics the spiritual benefits of Eucharistic Congresses have become obvious in the 32 international ones which have been held since 1881. Years ago the annual council...
First, expressing the unity of God, shows Mt. Sinai and an abstract pattern leading up to the Hebrew letter Echod (unity...
...Pound, recognizing the danger of constriction that ever overhangs the legal profession said "we must consider how to preserve the old professional training and yet meet the new demands for the training of lawyers who shall be useful to society...It (the need for an organic foundation) calls for abstract courses...detached from application in the everyday work of tribunals...