Word: culturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Council is currently sponsoring the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace of which Shapley is the chairman.
Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, is chairman of the committee in charge of the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, which starts three days of sessions in New York tomorrow.
"The Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace is a meeting of artists, writers, scientists, and professionals who seek to contribute to the establishment of a spirit of peace at a time when there is heavy noise of great armaments and war.
This view, says Eliot, is not much help to culture. Hand-picked "elites" (who is going to pick them? he asks) inevitably become specialists-one-track groups who only get together "like committees." Even if they could be chosen and made to shake down together, how would they carry out...
Culture, Eliot holds, can be passed on by men primarily through their children, because only through the family can people grasp another important element of culture-"Piety towards the dead, however obscure, and a solicitude for the unborn, however remote." So, in Eliot's opinion, if an "elite" does...