Word: concept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic courses, Mumford sees "a chance for me to put into practice the concept of education I have had for many years, which is that the humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the 20th Century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that 20th-century multiplicity may become 20th-century unity." One technique will be to acquaint" students with "the great masters of reality," not politicians, businessmen and economists, but Sophocles, Shakespeare, Isaiah, Dostoevski, St. Paul...
...Great Authors, and American Thought and Institutions, be made compulsory. Though the Faculty recently voted to establish these courses on an elective basis, there remains a large Faculty block in favor of their being required. To cram these courses down the throats of all students is contrary to every concept of a true liberal education. It is to set up as absolute one interpretation of a problem that is at best highly contestable and contested. There has never been an agreement among experts as to whether the essentials of the humane tradition lie in a common broad and necessarily superficial...
Back when the first World War was something, for interventionists to sell, the Class of 1918 began a spring social event with an unusual title and erratic make-up to parallel the Junior Dance and Senior Spread. Vocal competitions were its core of attraction with a reception, concept, buffet supper, and a dance tossed in "to attract even those who hitherto have taken no pleasure in listening to men's choruses...
While it is encouraging to find an intelligent man who can still write a book without calling Hitler the devil, such an overwhelmingly realistic study as Spykman's appears extreme. His concept of balanced power may perhaps be broad enough to meet the challenge that power politics has already held the stage too long, and should not be perpetuated...
...relative obscurity, almost completely over-shadowed by the colossus of total war effort, a basic concept in the long term meaning of that effort is under fire. In Minneapolis on December 1 seventeen men and one woman were convicted of conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the U. S. Government. The case, now on its way to the Supreme Court, has resolved itself into a test of the constitutionality of the Smith Act of 1940, which makes it a penal offense to discuss the over-throw of the government, or to criticize the conduct of the armed forces. Stated...