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...general, the author approaches Harvard in a way the blind men handled the elephant, bit by bit. He tries to let the University reveal itself through vignettes of sections, CRIMSON editorials, student comments; and if he does not capture the Gestalt of the University, he shows its diversity well...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: 'Imperial Harvard' | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

...categorical approach is usually used, however, if not out of sheer inertia, at least for convenience's sake. For the current exhibition at Busch-Reisinger, however, the old method is most appropriate, for there are precious few canvases in the whole lot which transcend their particular philosophy, genre or gestalt...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Deutsche Kunst II | 4/30/1958 | See Source »

...sipped his Scotch and looked far away. "The thing is, that you've got to allow for a connotational semantic, non-discursive elements forming a nevertheless meaningful Gestalt....Atheists, fundamentalists, they all talk about God as if He was a finite object, as if He were a thing...

Author: By --john E. Mcnees, | Title: Systematic Theology | 1/17/1958 | See Source »

Terming himself an optimist, Whyte commended the Gestalt theory of psychology, which stresses the tendency toward completion of patterns. He prophesied a movement from the science of things as they are to the science of things as they are becoming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whyte Discusses Theory Errors in Freud and Marx | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...represents a valuable contribution to the problem of "Science and Intuition." Seeing the photo of the molecule was like retracing the flight of a genius to whom nature had revealed one of her innumerable secrets, a tiny fragment of her divine gestalt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 12, 1945 | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

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