Word: deferement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meaning "criticism") and attractive thinking," exalting "creative art" at the expense of "scholarship." This is such a common statement of values that we tend to pass it over, ignoring the line of argument that prompts it. What is the argument? Simply this: that just as a work of art defers to the supremacy of life, so criticism should defer to the work of art. Criticism is here conceived as the lowest form of life, rather embarrassingly for Harvard, that lives criticism with such a passion. But is the line of reasoning a completely truthful one? I think not. Art' doesn...
...Radcliffe College Council the RGA constitution and by-laws, the group power to change the , the Rules Committee will final proposal late in May. If decides to defer action on the next fall, the rules changes to wait till then...
...time to begin working toward it. "Appropriations," he told the heads of federal agencies, "are only a ceiling, not a mandate to spend . . . The current outlook re-emphasizes the necessity to conduct the necessary work of the Government at the lowest possible costs, to eliminate or defer low-priority activities and to limit the number of Government employees to the absolute minimum...
However, the Conservatives believe in a theory of authority, Beer noted. Due the inevitable inequality in the natural abilities of men and the subsequent differences in their education, certain people should rule and the others should defer to their judgment. "And there are plenty of deferential followers left in England today, or else politics there woudn't be what they are today," he insisted...
Holmes' accusations are vigorously denied by Maj. Remo G. Gandin at the Massachusetts Selective Service headquarters. "We defer people because its going to be a hardship on them. ...When we can't use everyone in the country, we can and should be selective. ...We take the best qualified and the ones who will cause the least trouble to the armed forces while they...