Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as he had finished, all the other animals produced paper from nowhere in particular, and began to scribble as fast as they could. Alice noticed that the Lizard, who was sitting in the front row, was the only one wrote anything original. All the others copied from his paper, and crowded round him so closely that Alice was afaraid the poor little creature would be smothered. Meanwhile the frog looked at the ceiling. "He couldn't look anywhere else, poor thing," thought Alice; "his eyes are in the top of his head...
...were not at all conducive to a humorous perspective. But this alone cannot explain the remarkably abrupt falling-off of the satires and parodies that were legion between the years 1910 and about 1930. It has been said that humor, or attempts at it, is the property of a particular sort of mind--a mind which is either frenetic or dormant enough to see the incongruity of situations or vocations. Humor, and especially satire and parody, requires a divorcement of the subject from consequence. In this respect, it is not an idle assumption that "learning at the College level" took...
Besides receiving monthly lessons, followers of the course also carry on a personal correspondence with one of the Foundation's instructors. The purpose of this personal service is to help each individual with his own particular problems. On the Foundation's application form, the prospective student is asked to check off his deficiencies from a list which includes some fifty of the more common frailties. These include poor eyesight, alcoholic tendencies, dope addiction, unhappiness, inability to make friends, hate, fear, bashfulness, and any of four varities of sex difficulties ("over, under, fear of, perversion...
...power of rationalism to destroy, brought out by Hurkan and Tillich, has awakened in the editors grave doubts about intellectual activity and the function of the University. They claim the University has no real commitment "to the demands of the creative act" and that by having no particular point of view, or rather by allowing so many, what is created becomes no more important than what destroys it. Thus i.e. is not merely an attempt to formulate another point of view or to criticize, but an attempt towards an integrated artistic and scientific approach to the "new reality" created...
...survey made by four Cornell sociologists of 7,000 students at twelve colleges and universities. Of those questioned, eight out of ten said that they feel a need for a religious faith. Only 1% described themselves as atheists. Though the tendency, said the report, is not toward any particular creed, today's students seem fairly well agreed that there must be some religious system "based on God as the Supreme Being." Other signs of a new interest in religion on U.S. campuses...