Word: aristotelian
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Alfred Korzybski has one burning conviction-that "in the old construction of language, you cannot talk sense." The reason is that because of their Aristotelian thinking habits, which he thinks outmoded, men do not properly evaluate the world they talk about; consequently, words have lost their accuracy as expressions of ideas, if they ever had any to begin with...
...Western cultures belong to the past because the assumptions behind them no longer square with scientific and hence philosophical truth. Indeed, they never did; Northrop says that the last system of thought that accounted coherently for all the facts of science known at the time was the Aristotelian system of St. Thomas Aquinas (circa...
...production overflowing with exciting experiments, the most daring is its abandonment of realism as the medium of expression. Painted backdrops, liberal use of miniatures, and Disneyesque castles mark an important and significant departure from Hollywood's fantastic absorption with accuracy and detail. Applying to his sets the Aristotelian dictum that the function of the artist is to present the essence, rather than the particularity, of life-- which Shakespeare so wonderfully exemplifies in his use of dramatic poetry as a vehicle of expression-- Olivier reaches a level of perception into life that has seldom been equalled in motion pictures...
...translation of the original nor well-done modern theatre. Guthrie McClintic uses a plain but forceful set modeled after a Grecian interior, but dresses every character in 1946 evening clothes: the lines are a strange admixture of sonorous, poetic speeches for the high-born--tragic figures in the Aristotelian sense--and lower-level American slang for the vulgar; Anouilh preserves the Greek hours, but transforms it into a single narrator reminiscent of "Our Town...
...season were Till the End of Time, I'll Buy That Dream, On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe. Best-selling novels were The Black Rose and Forever Amber. A big movie hit was Love Letters, a romance about amnesia. A psychologist claimed that Superman provided a beneficent Aristotelian catharsis ; a Jesuit saw in him a fascist archetype. Young girls tried to look like Bacall with a dash of Hepburn. Their elders went in for cosmetics with manic names like Fatal Apple and Havoc. They also favored detachable daintiness features and phantom crotches. In ads as expressive as dreams...