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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name for himself by assembling Russian painters, exhibiting their work expensively in St. Petersburg and Paris. He took the Russian Opera and Chaliapin to Paris before he took the Ballet. But the dancers established his reputation with the world. He had Fokine create ballets that had true dramatic context. He used settings by Bakst, Derain, later Picasso. He commissioned composers like Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel to write him music. Expense was no item to Sergei Diaghilev. The Russian Ballet was the rage of Europe. Men like Baron Dmitri Gunsburg, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Aga Khan were proud to support it. Diaghilev...
...good life is easily used by the will, but it is equally the opposite of that Rousseauian naturalistic optimism, that Alice-in-Wonderland adventure of the self which finds the whole of goodness concealed in its own closets, and which reads Rabelais's Theleme injunction wrenched from its context. The philosophy of humanism is essentially and necessarily dualistic, and is continuous with the best expressions of that philosophy in history; with Aristotle and with scholasticism and, today, with neo-scholasticism without, however, giving to any of these systems a monopoly of the humanistic principle. Almost paradoxically, but logically enough...
...most departments is defined arbitrarily, merely for convenience. In History and Literature, on the other hand, the subject matter is shaped by an idea. The department was organized, on Professor Barrett Wendell's initiative, as a protest against the barren treatment of history which isolated political events from their context and therefore failed frequently to grasp their significance. Professor Wendell believed that political events could be studied with far more understanding if they were related to the whole culture of a period, to the prevailing climate of thought. The climate of thought could be approached most directly, he believed, through...
...after numerous stimulating dives into communications similar to that reprinted above, the CRIMSON finds no reason to retract any statement in its editorial "On the Tribune" which appeared on February 6. Characteristic of the complaints has been the childish tendency to segregate trenchant words and phrases from their context, to ignore all qualifications whatsoever. A careful reconsideration of the editorial should serve as a calming influence. As a denouncement let it be known that the writer of the editorial is a midwesterner...
...Certainly there has been a perfect orgy of this sort of thing," cried Baron Rankeil-lour. "I greatly fear that some of His Majesty's ministers and former ministers have forgotten the context of their oath...