Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pollock-De Kooning breakthrough soon found a following, and a label: abstract expressionism. Like most labels, this one has proved inadequate. It is used loosely to suggest merely the expression of strong feeling without any reference to objective reality. Young idealists in search of an ideal, and middle-aged casuists in search of a cause, alike sprang to the defense of abstract expressionism almost before it began to be attacked. And it was attacked, inevitably, for to believers in the classical concepts of beauty and truth to nature, it was an insult. This gave the advance guard a stimulating sense...
...examination period, he stumbles through his one-day vacation, signs his two registration cards- and then finds himself confronted with a bewildering tangle of courses, most of which somehow meet at the same time. Completely stymied, he wanders aimlessly from course to course for a week, seeking that missing ideal combination. Professors generally denounce this "shopping," yet the faculty itself does little to prevent it. If courses within fields of concentration conflicted less, students would be able to choose their courses with greater satisfaction on all sides...
...personae themselves, the laurels go to Michael MacLiammoir for his superb portrayal of the traitor Iago, whose evil is somehow intensified by two wisps of chin whiskers. Robert Coote is an unusually funny Roderigo. Welles, with his wide-range voice, is more than competent though not ideal in the title role. Suzanne Cloutier's Desdemona emerges rather colorless, mostly because her part has been so greatly cut, including the whole Willow Song scene. In places, the synchronization of the speech sound track is imprecise. Nevertheless, the film well deserved its Cannes Festival Grand Prize. It will outrage the Shaksperian pedant...
Throughout the history of Western Civilization, the committee says, men have accepted the religious interpretation of life and found the way to good through religion. "The Harvard Report," it adds, "does not rule out the validity of these religious ideals; it only opposes inculcating a certain religious morality or making a religious ideal the unifying element in liberal education...
...What it opposes is the domination of education by a single religious ideal or the inculcation of moral precepts. In short, it would disapprove preaching religion while admitting the value of teaching about religion. This is an important distinction that is frequently misunderstood by academicians. Many of them nervously expect teaching about religion always to lapse into preaching. Unfortunately the fear of the one has led to the abandonment of the other in many curriculums...