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...purpose was solemn. Arnold often indulged in levity that disturbed the specific gravity of fellow Victorians-and led to a cartoon by irreverent Max Beerbohm (see cut') mocking them both. The cultural history of man, he wrote in Culture and Anarchy, his most famous essay, is an interplay between what Arnold called Hebraism-the urge of conscience to follow the best moral light man has-and Hellenism-the spirit of inquiry that constantly questions conscience to be sure that it does not mislead, that the best light is not superstitious darkness. He foresaw that the 19th century...
...situation with the rush of her own peculiar eloquence. A reader can cheerfully follow David and Liz through the awe of contemplating the baby's hand, the terror of watching its first illness, the slowly emerging awareness of what shape their marriage may finally assume. And in the interplay between the generations lies a lingering dynastic question: How much do we inherit from the past; how much can we disown...
...than the standard design of straight stretches connected by short curves. Uniform median width should also be avoided; the median strip between the ribbons of roadway should be expanded and contracted to overcome the monotony of high-speed travel. "The designer of a divided freeway possesses, in the very interplay of the two undulating ribbons of pavement, a basic tool of spatial expression," and he should treat it as "a sculptural form in its own right...
...whirling in his head, and when stone and wood were no longer flexible enough, he switched to welded metal. Though his sculpture often seems to have an organic life of its own, it is not inspired by nature, and he believes that no association should interfere with the tense interplay between mass and void. "In open sculpture," says Ferber. "the space and the forms are equally important. The eye travels around and inside them. There is no business of front or back because the eye goes right through...
Brown added that a course grade in sophomore tutorial does not really affect "the free interplay of ideas. Discussion is not entirely uninhibited in any case. A full-course credit has just made it more obvious that a game is going...