Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither reaction, I think, is quite correct. As a considerate thinker, Wilson is quite conscious of the extremity of this position as stated. But he does not desire or expect a reaction of disgust from anyone interested in reading his essay in the first place; the dogmatic force of his...
The panel agreed that the arts were a highly exacting profession and that, in the words of Randall Thompson '20, Walter Bigelow Professor of Music, "You shouldn't go into music unless you're passionately interested."
Art as a career consists of "part madness, part love, part curiosity," declared Francis H. Taylor, director of the Worcester Art Museum, last night at the Career Conference on Fine Arts. Taylor agreed with the other panelists that a career of music and painting is financially risky. He suggested, however...
None of these notions are unique with Trilling. They are indeed the conservative beliefs which we have today transcended. He believes that discipline is a good thing, that memorizing poetry is worth the pain, that the cult of ignorance is lamentable, that heroism is better than democratic ineptitude and conformity...
Much of the pre-release speculation about Teahouse concerned the casting of Marlon Brando as the buffoonish Okinawan interpreter and village philosopher. All doubts of his ability to play the part should be dispelled by Brando's charmingly engaging performance, even though his enunciation is about as good as that...