Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this were the whole story, the Golden Day could not have existed at all. But the new nation had its hour of glory. It occurred in that brief moment, when there was a nice balance between farm and factory, when maritime contact with the Orient and the Mediterranean was widening the native horizon, when--to quote the author--"the inherited mediaeval civilization of New England dried up, leaving behind a sweet, acrid aroma ... when in the act of passing away, the Puritan begot the transcendentalist." Emerson, Thorean, and Whitman rediscovered the treasure house of the past and envisioned...
...hill; suddenly the thing is formed, we see it clearly. The picture remains a picture but just as in actuallity the certainty of the relative fixation of objects is convincing so here within the picture their relation convinces us and the sensation is fundamentally that which is gotten from contact with actuality although the actual appearance is not aped. The picture become the recreation dependent upon those fundamentals beneath the epidermis of appearances...
...strength and its wisdom by protecting itself from too much infiltration. . . . The trouble with the melting-pot is that the grease comes to the top. . . . When we consider the interval separating Pasteur from the monkey, it seems to me the Negro has traveled a long distance in his short contact with Western civilization. Next year I am going to Africa to study the ancestors of these Western Negroes. ... I confess I have been rather shocked at some things I have seen in your theatres and cinemas. In An American Tragedy and even in What Price Glory there is a literal...
...should cultivate an interest in, and an appreciation of, some field of human activity, such as art or literature that will serve as a recreation from the daily work or his profession or business. Such avocations will not only enrich his life, and enlarge his point of human contact, but they also often help to develop a frame of mind which may make him more successful in his professional work...
...with its constantly increasing proofs of its deep meaning in the fundamental problems of nature and human life, it will become steadily clearer to faculty and students that an introduction to geology is indispensable to every cultivated man. The existing rules of distribution permit all Harvard undergraduates to gain contact with the subject. Concentration in geology is another matter...