Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...somewhat contradictory remarks, made a few weeks ago by the national commander of the American Legion, illustrate more clearly than any abstract editorial generalizations the present status of academic freedom in this country. Addressing two Legion posts gathered in New York's Madison Square Park for a Memorial Day service, Mr. Ray Murphy voiced the dire prediction that if this nation were ever overcome by Russia, "a lot of American citizens, most of them college graduates, would be ready, able, and willing to staff the new satellite of the Soviet...
Director Sweeney, who toured the country to make his selections in person, favors abstract art, and the scattering of representational pictures in his exhibition looks almost as out of place as dogs at a flower show. But Sweeney carefully points out that the exhibition is not meant to be a cross section or to indicate a trend...
...each two or three week problem session, small two-hour seminars are held to thrash out the problem. Taylor says he doesn't care about a student's position as long as his reasoning is vaild. By thus emphasizing practice, that is, by relating the abstract portions of a subject to a student's experience, the College hopes to give the subject matter greater meaning and vitality...
...often, divinity schools teach theology without sufficiently relating it to contemporary life. While science "seeks a theoretical system which can be ... translated into practical procedures for the production of machines, goods and institutions, theology has tended to move toward the abstract and to be content with general postulates." Dr. Hartshorne applauded the introduction of such subjects as sociology and church administration into seminary classrooms, but "as things are now, these are . . . unrelated systems, each going its own way . . . We have no curriculum, but only subjects of study...
...painter as well as the paintings, and three years later she and Nicholson were married. It was about this time in her career that Sculptress Hepworth began to put holes in her carvings: "I . . . felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space...