Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conditions of society . . . The audience is able to bring less to the work of art than under the conditions of the old culture, and the artist is required to bring more . . . almost the whole job of culture has been dumped into the artist's hands . . . The burden of criticism in our time is ... to make bridges between the society and the arts: to prepare the audience for its art and to prepare the arts for their artists...
...burden, then, is squarely on the News. We want a paper, but we insist that it be a good one. We should think about the compulsory subscription issue only in terms of whether the News will be better or worse in the long...
...chief reason for the present lack of personal attention is caused by the excessive burden on the readers. In many courses, the instructor carries more than his share by grading graduate papers. The undergraduate burden, therefore, falls chiefly on the assistants, with an average of a little less than 100 papers per course. Since the Registrar's Office requires grades one week after the examination has been held, there is little opportunity for correcting papers thoroughly and in time for the students to see them. Fifteen minutes per paper is a generous estimate, for this amounts to a 25-hour...
Europe's guilt is more complex, more subtly expressed, and more easily abused. Its burden is the burden of Western man's whole failure to make more of his life and his world than he has so far made. It rests with especial weight upon the conscience of Europe, because it is here that Western civilization has come to visible and extreme; catastrophe. Europeans may tell themselves, as they do, that the younger peoples of the American hemisphere share the failure. But it is to European eyes that the ruin of Berlin, the chaste and ordered scars...
...basic method of the program is to build up frail muscles by special exercises until they will be able to hear the burden of normal living. Men with severe injuries first work out in the gym on wall weights and other devices. When they have developed sufficient strength, they transfer to more enjoyable activities such as rowing or swimming...