Word: criteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Criteria of Efficacy...
...some painters who themselves were radical only a few styles back are beginning to raise an old question: What is art? They are worried not so much by the extravagance of some objects that are accepted as art as by the fact that there seem to be no criteria, no opposition, not even an insistence on the artist's uniqueness or individuality-the very claim that used to animate artistic revolutions. More and more people are beginning to feel that the current state of art, as Robert Frost said of free verse, is like playing tennis without...
...graduate programs seem easiest to sell. Chicago clearly ranked in the top ten in last summer's infamous survey of Graduate School education. But it never placed number one. Chicago newspapers played up the university's high standing, while simultaneously undercutting the survey's pretensions and criteria for judgement. The U of C's seven professional schools (Business, Divinity, Education, Law, Library, Medicine and Social Service Administration) likewise rank high, but none have an assured position in first place. Chicago can proudly claim 27 Nobel Prize winners in some form of affiliation, including its current President, George W. Beadle...
...perhaps Chicago should not pretend that it does. As the newspapers pointed out, general criteria for greatness really satisfy no one. The U of C's virtues will not be found in a prestige or ranking contest with other universities. They are instead small and unique, usually a question of emphasis different from other institutions: the pioneering Urban Training Center for Divinity School students, or the communications system-computer expert who heads the library school. The university has not lost its Harper-established reputation, but it must not forfeit its individuality by stretching its claims...
...have inaugurated a new era in which limited, conventional wars are likelier than before. It is precisely in such limited conflicts that the old just-war principles seem pertinent again. Some churchmen deny this. Says the Rev. Paul Oestreicher of the British Council of Churches: "If the technical criteria of the just war are taken at face value, this is tantamount to pacifism, because no modern war conceivably measures up to them." Nevertheless, most of the moral objections advanced against the Viet Nam war are generally put in terms of the just-war principles, and they move quickly from moral...