Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson insists he has no quarrel with the "new critics" who assert that a literary work should require no knowledge to be understood outside of that presented in the book itself. He maintains, however, that a knowledge of the author's life can very often throw further illumination on his works. It would be a critical folly, he says, to throw this knowledge away...
...health." On the other hand, Beat art, says Goodman, is parochial, hopelessly parochial. Discussing Beat words--"make it," "like," "man," "cool" --Goodman finds a paucity of vocabulary and syntax expressive of the Best withdrawal from standard civilization and its learning. "In a Best group it is bad form to assert or deny a preposition as trus or false, probable or improbable, or to want to explore its meaning. The aim of conversation is for each one to be able, by speech, to know that he is existing and belonging...
This deep-seated conviction is reflected in the many debates on educational policy tend to center on what the student should be taught rather than what he actually winds up learning, and in the resounding resolution with which Faculty members will assert that they have no influence over either the interests or the efforts of undergraduates. The same attitude makes admissions most important problem of the College. If Harvard only offers opportunities rather than holding attitudes and talents, the raw material the most important part of the educational...
...intensity. By pretending that the cancerous Krebiozen controversy does not exist, organized medicine represented by the American Medical Association and the American Cancer Society is acting on the assumption that "if we don't look, it will go away." This, as A.M.A. and A.C.S. are both quick to assert, is the cardinal sin of patients who delay in taking their lumpy growths to a doctor...
...Northwestern University Kositerin's effectiveness was proved to be almost nil. But Durovic was referred to the University of Illinois' Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy. When Durovic saw Ivy, he told him that he had a drug named Krebiozen, extracted from horse blood, for treating cancer. Some scoffers assert that Kositerin became Krebiozen during a cab ride across town...