Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relation to their ideals, to "assimilate their own tragedy," rather than fleeing to comforting but false "eternal verities," is well taken. In the case of Huxley and T. S. Eliot, however, he fails to make it clear why the Christian mystical experience is not a valid truth-criterion for anyone lucky enough to have...
...primaries, besides showing general political apathy, grants self-interested, organized political machines the upper hand. Congressional and State leaders should be considered with more, rather than less, discrimination in war time. At a time when side-show entertainment and baby kissing should fade into the background as a criterion of administrative excellence, other parts of the country have shown that they, too, are not awake. Hamilton Fish and "Pass the biscuits, Pappy" O'Daniels have passed the primaries in their States and seem certain of reelection...
What has been the criterion used by all the music critics of history, above and beyond the changes in musical style? If any, it has been the demand that great music must arise from greatness in the composer himself, greatness not defined in terms of talent, fecundity, or energy, but in terms of character. The internal strength, in a sense, the moralness, of music is what binds it fast as an art to the sum-total of human history and behaviour. Like a piece of music, the life of a man is an improvization and development of a period...
...results of the Senior Album Poll of the Class of 1942 can be taken as any criterion, the members of the Class of 1946 can safely bet their Commencement John Harvard '46 will come from Jenkintown, Pa., have gone to public high school, have got on group IV with four hours of work per day, listened chiefly to classical music, loved pin-ball and betting, and chosen Wellesley as top women's college...
Branding a sense of humor as the main criterion of masculine beauty, Constance Moore, star of the current musical "All's Fair," gave advance notice of just what Harvard's ugliest man, to be chosen at tonight's Adams House dance, will look like...