Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Remarking that he had maligned no individual, he apologized for his "outspokenness" in the campaign and said, "but I could not do otherwise. I, as a person, do not matter in this fight. Someone has to be the target for ridicule, for insinuation, for libel...
Meanwhile, successive editions of the Manhattan press printed fresh explanations by Dean Moore. Said he: "There's nothing wrong with the book. Matter of fact, it's on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's preferred list. . . . It's a sugar-coated study of a social scene. . . . When you write a book for young people, that is, for the general public, you like to make the titles rather interesting...
...subconscious," grand catch-all of irrational human nature, came into literature through James Joyce, into painting through Surrealism. The soberest writers and painters are glad of it, reckoning dreams and fantasies and unconscious motives part of the subject matter of art. They agree with most people in disliking Surrealism's fakes, faddists, exhibitionists. They value the systematic study of the subconscious by qualified scientists. Last week in Manhattan this respectful alliance between artists and psychiatrists was demonstrated in the first public exhibition of its kind yet held in the U. S.-106 pictures made by pathological patients at Manhattan...
...this meant precisely what a new and rangier telescope would mean to an observatory. Day by day they could study in sequence the attempts at expression by mentally sick people. Though the art of individual schizophrenics, among them Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, has been analyzed in the past as a matter of psychiatric routine, Director Karl Bowman of the Psychiatric Division thinks Bellevue was the first to practice such extensive therapeutic use of painting, such systematic study of the results...
...clue to existence to be found in matter? Or in the ceaseless movement to no end, as of living organisms depending on instinct? Or is it rather to be found in personal adherence to an ideal, as expressed in the life of a great and good person--a sage, a pioneer, a saint? It we choose the latter, then we are not like a machine, or a bundle of instincts, but are useful, intelligent, humane individuals...