Word: abstractions
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...opening experience to see how our money was actually being used," Collins says. "It is hard to understand when everything is abstract, but we got to see an actual project...
Music Professor David Lewin '54 received his undergraduate degree in mathematics, summa cum laude, before choosing music as his profession. "Both fields are very abstract," he says in an interview, "and both give a similar type of pleasure. They both involve the pleasure of puzzle-solving and the pleasure of craftsmanship, and seem to put you in touch with something humanistically profound." Unlike most other fields, he says, social utility is rarely a chief motivation...
...times I have had great respect for the Jews and Arabs I've met during the last two months who have worked on and talked about Question 5, regardless of their opinion, right or left. We already do care; it's our peoples who are involved, and not just abstract principles applied as easily to Africa or Central America. At times all I've been is frustrated. I know we can put our passion to better use. It's not hard. Jonathan Savett...
...appeal on the value of defending democracy--namely by insuring that the 49 percent of the employees who voted against the union were not ill-served by irregular voting practices--then it had better follow through. In American society, universities alone have the luxury of pursuing goals based on abstract values and higher goods. Universities don't have to act according to some debased calculus that balances the chances of winning against the negative effects on union relations...
Considered in the abstract, at least, the idea of making English the official language of American states seems reasonable enough. As supporters of the referenda often argued, it doesn't seem like a great imposition to ask United States citizens to learn the nation's native language. After all, learning a new language hardly seems too much to ask in exchange for the benefits of living in a free society. And having pockets of foreign-speaking people might have a divisive effect on the unity of the nation, the referenda supporters claimed...