Word: essay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that title is meant to imply, her chief cultural presupposition is that readers, viewers and critics should approach art with no cultural presuppositions. Beginning with her opening essay, "The Aesthetics of Silence," she argues that the public must explore new standards of judgment to match new concepts...
...from? Even thought come from? Even though the service are very fine, they essentially serve the status quo. And then there are problems of whom to serve. And then there is the problem of serving a particular war. And then there is the problem of ROTC. Like Barzun, the essay above argues for the old university, for the return of simplicity and commitment to learning and teaching--not to vast research projects and commitment to the "national interest" and the federal government. Like Barzun, the essay above argues that to serve society best, a university must produce and pass...
...break with d'Annunzio and the traditions of Italian poetry. Glauco Cambon's study of Ungaretti in the Columbia series recalled the war poems as "flashes of insight bursting through the shell of established prosodic convention to capture the immediacy of inner experience." And Ungaretti himself reflected (in an essay titled "The Mission of the Artist") on the extent to which his culture has been wounded by the damages of war: "The recollection of iniquity and ruin lodges atrociously in our flesh and in our souls...
...reasons for policy that they disagree with Hence, the American academic community feels much more outside of government then do comparable communities in various other countries. This sense of being outsiders contributes to the well-known propensity for American academics to be alienated form politics." The evidence in the essay above indicates just the opposite. The most severe problems that universities face are a result of the overwhelming influence of the government...
Frank G. Hutchins, assistant professor of Government and Head Tutor in the department, said yesterday that, although the junior essay officially counts for one half the final Gov 98 grade, the mark submitted by a tutor is rarely altered by more than half a grade...