Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under attack, Toynbee merely revised some of his broader conclusions. Spengler was all but shot down in flames. The experts demonstrated that he knew almost nothing about Chinese culture, nothing at all about Mexican. His Time Chart, marking off the exact number of years spent by each culture in each Spenglerian phase of its doomed history, was riddled with errors of fact. His parallels between cultures were often forced. All this was true. If the West was declining, it was not doing so according to any rules or laws the book had demonstrated...
Both sides refused to comment yesterday on possible broader aspects of the case including its effect on the HSA's policy of not permitting students to own any share of its agencies, and HSA activities in the publications field
...Wheeler deals with the broader question of world-wide education and the distribution of economic resources in a dissertation which will soon be published, Freedom and Education: A Study of the Interrelation in American Thought of Ideas of Freedom and Education. The social growth caused by freeing and exploiting woman-power in this country would be only a miniature version of the social benefits of education and economic development on a world scale, she feels. But world-wide education will have to be properly handled...
...Origins of the Second World War is a strictly limited work, but the limitations were consciously imposed by Taylor. He has neither interest nor, I think, competence to describe the War's origins in deeper terms which would determine such questions as its "inevitability," sources in the broader cultural of German and Western European history. To "explain" the War in this sense requires a willingness to employ imaginative and intuitive faculties in a manner which Taylor does not, and cannot permit himself...
Conway asserted that any further House seminars ought to be based on the "interest of undergraduates in a particular idea," rather than on a broader subject. Indicative of this concept is the fact that Leverett is offering only one seminar this year...