Word: dialecticism
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Questioned by West Germans (to see whether they should be admitted as bona fide refugees), most East Germans say the reason for their flight is economic: they are tired of eking out a grim living in the East, and have heard about West Germany's booming full employment. But...
In a brilliant shift of its dialectic, the Poet's Theatre has sided with comprehensibility this month, and come up with a rousing, if not always consistent, spoof of early and silent Hollywood. Much of poet John Ashbery's original play is quite funny.
The problem of presenting relative truths in a stimulating form is not a new one. Henry Adams in the 1870's faced it, and came up with an interesting suggestion--lectures given as a dialectic between two professors with a student question period. Through this balance of opposite views a...
The double-lecturer system, of course, could not be used widely--a new associate professor obviously could not be hired for every history and social science course. In many courses and for many topics two points of view would be pointless, or, at least, unfruitful. But, in courses in which...
But such dialectic should be recognized for what it is--comforting rationalization. None of it detracts from the inspired victory of a powerful Yale team.