Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watson said he felt the highway would displace a particular class--the large, low income family--and charged that members of the Citizens Advisory Committee, "from the Presidents of the Universities on down," were not working in best interests of the city in urging cooperation on the road planning. President Pusey is a member of the Advisory Committee...
...Design School offers contrary evidence that successful training is possible in fields not limited to the exercise of the critical interpretative facilities but also in those relying upon artistic creativity. The efforts and results of the GSD and Arch. Sci. Department in the teaching of the visual arts assumes particular importance in a society whose increased awareness and concern for the role of the visual arts is especially notable against the background of nearly complete neglect which characterized its attitude towards these fields in the past...
...pilot study conducted last week, one interviewer said he found "as much prejudice as philosophy." Half of the voters interviewed showed no interest in foreign policy, and one admitted voting for a particular party "because I was brought up that...
...logic behind these particular forms of tax is that the products and services taxed are basically luxuries; thus, these increases will "soak the rich" without hurting the poor. While the idea involved may be quite noble, the facts of the case do not jibe with the principle. To many New Yorkers, neither taxi rides nor restaurant meals are luxuries; and, as the cabdrivers have pointed out, the taxi tax penalizes one segment of the population for the benefit of another, no more deserving group...
Clouds was directed against the educational practices of the Sophists in general, and of Socrates in particular. The fact that Socrates was not a valid representative of the Sophists made no difference; a well-known whipping dog was needed, and fairness be damned. Ironically, Aristophanes could vent his aristocratic and antisocratic bias only in a highly democratic community that permitted slander, libel, blasphemy, and indecency. Socrates (played with gusto and the proper amount of eccentricity by Upton Brady) appears as the pettifogging proprietor of a "think-shop," a sort of Rube Goldberg of the intellect with his head...