Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guerrillas -notably Stringfellow Barr, former president of St. John's College, Scott Buchanan, former dean of St. John's, and Mark Van Doren, English professor at Columbia-have answered long & loud: make U.S. education truly liberal. That means, according to Adler, that 1) American college professors must commit academic hara-kiri by giving up their specialized fields; they should be able to teach anything in the liberal arts; 2) the scientific method should stick to science, and leave to philosophy the job of determining matters of right & wrong; 3) all Americans should get the same kind of liberal...
...make it clear," said he, "that we conformed, in principle, to the policy of our predecessors. Indeed, in some respects it might be said that we did not commit ourselves as far as they had done...
...S.N.V.A. split off from the Peace Council last week when the Council would not commit themselves to a policy of pacifism. "The S.N.V.A. would exclude a true liberal and peace-lover if he is not a pacifist," Sharpe said. "Our group is interested in the reduction of armaments throughout all world powers, not in any one nation," he said...
...Come Down shows the point such novels have reached in the last decade or two. In the Kafka world, the victim-hero was still able to react to his miseries with horror. In the Bowles world, the victim-hero is both amoral and numb. He will commit any crime in order to give himself the feeling of having "a place in the world, a definite status, a precise relationship with the rest...
Though either man would have perished rather than commit a symbol, it remains a suggestive fact that William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were introduced while standing in an empty English theater...