Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here too much is obscure and too often the assignment of routine courses replaces careful faculty consideration. Too much is mechanical; too little is personal. It is easier to tell a man to take the traditional courses--unexciting, shallow, and often repetitions survey courses--than to conclude that this particular man could well be allowed to do much of this work on his own--reading and listening and talking where he can profit most. The frequent result is depressing indeed, for we see many a man less mature, less selfpoised, and less confident after two years in a graduate school...
...always look forward with great enthusiasm to this particular weekend. One of the causes for this attitude is due to the wonderful hospitality shown us by the undergraduates of Harvard. When incidents of this nature arise, therefore, we are deeply concerned that the actions of a small minority should destroy the fine relationship which exists between our two institutions...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Bristled Radio Moscow: "If Eisenhower and Macmillan really want to bring the Middle East back to normal, why don't they invite other countries? Mr. Macmillan's meeting with the President hints at a separate plot by one group of powers against others−in particular, the Soviet Union...
...must send it in." Comments Sir Gerald wryly: "Well, I sent it in, but it jolly soon came back." Reason was the academy's unwritten law prohibiting any work that might cause offense or annoyance to the viewer's religious or moral scruples. The academy's particular concern was that Queen Mary, peering at The Sphinx strait-lacedly, might deem it beyond the pale of propriety, though, says Sir Gerald, "For the life of me, I couldn't see anything about it to shock anybody...
Space & Meaning. At midcentury, American art has reached a sort of delta. The leading painters follow a dozen different channels, and each naturally insists that his particular channel is the main one. Fortunately, there is controversy. When two of the nation's most admired painters can hold and express views as diametrically opposed as those of Mark Tobey and Andrew Wyeth, a healthy state of tension exists. "Multiple space bounded by white lines," Abstractionist Tobey tells the world without a wink, "symbolizes higher states of consciousness." And Realist Wyeth replies: "What the subject means is the most important thing...