Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some time, I have been using the method of Professor Jaeger, who was my teacher in Berlin, of uniting the history of ideas with the history of art. The problem is to what extent an art work is an expression of the ideas and ideals of a particular culture...
...National Education Association. In such cases, Authors Elizabeth Engle Thompson and Arthur E. Hamalainen say, the foreign language "should become part of the social living experiences in every classroom." But in communities with only one language "instruction to develop skills and vocabulary for all elementary school children in a particular language is without purpose...
...Schubert posed enormous technical difficulties which the musicians met heroically. The opening horn call was given without a flaw, and the entire performance showed the results of meticulous practice and rehearsing. The opening of the finale, in particular, gave promise of brilliance and exuberance...
Without discussing the merits or drawbacks of such an approach, it might be suggested that the Orchestra is not committed to any particular number of concerts a year, and both players and audiences might find it more rewarding to have fewer concerts, but those few better prepared. It is frustrating to the musicians, and no joy to the listeners, to allow a great symphony such as the Schubert 7th to receive a prosaic reading, when two weeks' more rehearsal would have permitted a more satisfying performance...
...Harvard is compelled to attend the services of a particular church (or temple, or mosque); but neither should any church be compelled to admit into itself ceremonies of other sects. To insist on such compulsion is certainly not to favor tolerance against intolerance. It is rather to prefer irreligion (or perhaps mere religiosity) to every conviction of religious reality. By welcoming, without query, the services of all faiths, the church would in effect exclude everyone whose religion is more than a gesture; it would be making itself into a shrine to the one unifying faith of Harvard indifference...