Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of sociologists' general agreement on the non-objective character of their discipline, identification between the content of the subject and the faculty who practice it, as has often occurred in Economics, is less likely to happen in Sociology. Radical economists came into irreconcilable conflict with senior faculty because they disagreed with the whole of a coherent, relatively rigid theory of neo-classical economics. In this way, the radicals challenged an accepted science that was tied to the intellectual and professorial identity of the economics faculty. There could be no compromise on either side...
Mathematics renders everything visible-and visionary. So, Bill wrote in 1949, "despite the fact that the basis of the mathematical approach to art is in reason, its dynamic content is able to launch us on astral flights ..." Overstated, perhaps; but declarations of faith tend to be, just as universal languages are more legible to their inventors than to anyone else...
...resemble one another in their cool professionalism and a musical intelligence and maturity far beyond their years. They lead the circumscribed life of performing artists. "Whenever I get on a plane, I always hope it will be to explore a new city," says Kyung-Wha. "Instead, I must be content to explore a new audience." Their personalities are similar only in a courteous sense of selfimportance. Myung-Whun is intense, Kyung-Wha fiery, and Myung-Wha pacific. When family frictions do arise, the Chungs may find their strongest bond in their individual ability to make shafts of sound seem more...
...phrase is "as taught at Harvard." Not only does the report criticize the content of graduate courses, it scores the quality of instruction. One message is that Harvard Economics professors do not teach enough graduate courses, and that students consider them "uncaring, unapproachable, and inaccessible...
Apparently ignoring the theological pluralism of the early church, the Pope also told the prelates that it was "dangerous to speak of diversified theologies according to continents and cultures. The content of faith is either Catholic or it is not." Unabashed, the bishops of Africa and Madagascar publicly issued a joint statement urging that the church in Africa become a faith "incarnate" in the continent through the application of African values, and not merely be an adaptation of European Catholicism...