Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary for the investigator-scholar, is a great disadvantage to the general student of art. His ignorance of the circumstances in which a great picture was painted, or a building constructed, not only limits the range of "enjoyment" it can bring him, but falsifies his whole notion of the basic relationships between art and society in all times, including the present...
...means of gaining insight into the line, form and colors of the great masters. Too often this analytical approach becomes merely a series of five-finger exercises, an attempt to put the Principles of Design through their paces, to make drawings and paintings which will be illustrations of basic principles of order, not an attempt to explore the relation between what the artist wants to say, to describe, to express, and the particular means he chooses with which to do it. If art is a language, then one can scarcely hope to learn its words without their meanings...
...Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government and chairman of the Department of Government, will teach the basic course, "Contemporary Problems of Democracy" in the newly established Institute of Democracy at Northwestern University this summer, it was announced yesterday...
...Hall admits that the reasons for one person's specific fear of snakes, another's of high places, another's of germs may well be due to environmental conditioning. But he believes that such conditioning simply controls the direction of emotional response, that the basic amount of emotionality is inherited. The researches which have led him to this opinion have been conducted by him and his co-workers on rats...
...only one of above $5,000,000. But Bone & Associates proposed to lower the personal exemption for single persons from $1,000 to $500, for married persons from $2,500 to $1,000, reduce allowances for dependents from $400 to $100, up the basic tax from 4% to 6%. Proposed takings from sample taxable net incomes (before State taxes): $60 from $1,000, $860 from $6,000, $11,080 from $20,000, $90,280 from $100,000, $9,891,280 from $10,000,000. Corporations would have to turn over to the U. S. all net income in excess...