Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such research, annually amounting to millions of dollars granted primarily by foundations, is traditionally one of the key aspects of the University's educational operation. Aside from its role as a function of the scholar's normal intellectual curiosity, however, continuous original research has become an important criterion for teaching on the Harvard Faculty. Yet despite the heavy burdens imposed thereby on Harvard's teaching personnel, the University has thus far taken little responsibility for fostering and underwriting original research...
...aesthetic criterion, however, is challenged most graphically by George Grosz. Sharp, biting, vitriolic, his satires often, as in "I Am The Boss," amount to a vulgar denial of aesthetics. Grosz succeeds in his attempt to revolt and disgust. His portrayals of lasciviousnes, corruption and wretchedness hit home with intended impact for they are executed in line and wash that are as sickly and depressing as their subjects...
...report added that college sex morality is somewhat better than the academic morality. The document reported, however, that students at Cornell "attach little importance to chastity as a criterion for choosing a mate...
...Code which the industry has recently formulated under Board Chairman Eric Johnson was promulgated under these pressures and it makes a sharp departure from the strict provisions of the old Code. The new Code now defines as its criterion "the limits of good taste." That the industry should so repudiate its old standards on the grounds of the success of the banned films indicates a sharp break with the several pressure groups who largely formulated the old Code. The industry has realized that the American public is not so puerile as the Legion of Decency or the American Legion would...
...patient whose heart is about to be bared and repaired is Mr. Arcularis, originally the sad, gentle hero of a taut, understated Conrad Aiken short story which first appeared in T. S. Eliot's Criterion in 1932. Fourteen years later, dramatized with the help of British Actress-Writer Diana Hamilton, it achieved a four-week run in London. Now, still haunted by what the play might have been, Pulitzer Prizewinner Aiken has performed the dramatizing operation all over again, this time singlehanded, and with excellent results...