Word: dialecticism
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The closest to a ponderable theme in Pigeons and People is the old one used by Playwright Cohan of yore, that the sane are insane and the insane sane. Beyond that Cohan comes out flatly in favor of "straightaway" thinking. Cohan theatre, Cohan jauntiness make what promises more into a...
Chicago intelligentsia have long been aware of Mrs. Hutchins' psychological drawings, compositions of nude female figures drawn "with a blank mind," with no conscious effort, which she calls "dialectic" drawings.* At various parties last winter she showed them to friends, with a magic lantern and a typewritten manuscript of...
Poems and drawings made up the book privately printed last week. Most popular of the dialectic drawings is one Mrs. Hutchins calls "An Apple a Day" (see-cut). At private performances this is shown in four positions, including upside down. Wrote Mrs. Hutchins on the edge of her manuscript after...
In addition to pointing out essential issues, whether in history, in literature, or in ethics, the Dunster House Forum has provided a rare occasion for valuable training in dialectic. Socratic dialectic is probably the most neglected mental discipline in the regular college course, and anything which encourages it is a...
Against these arguments the priest advances only feeble opposition, does not use the dialectic resources of the Church. When Joel calls life "an eddy in the Second Law of Thermodynamics'' the priest does not draw attention to the Virgin Birth. But the scientist's ratiocinations leave him unconvinced. When the...