Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dance performed with perfect technique but without imagination and spiritual expression is not art, so the dance without technique also is not art. Only with technique is it, possible to subject the body and movements to the will power, and to express through poses and movements all the emotions of the heart...
Leprosy never springs up de novo; it is always the result of direct contact. Children of lepers are born free of taint and can grow up in perfect health. By isolation of lepers, western Europe freed itself from the curse of the Middle Ages...
There are several other omissions and changes in the public speaking courses, but the literature courses present more striking differences. An almost perfect chronological order will be followed in the arrangement of the course list. Quite apart from the numerous shifts of instructors, the courses have been changed, dropped and added systematically with the result that there is no break in the continuity of the entire field in the group intended for both undergraduates and graduates. A great many of the courses that are consistently bracketed will be dropped for good. There are four new courses in the graduate...
...which the literature courses are to be arranged, instead of the haphazard potpourri which they represent at present. By guaranteeing that no important period of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the present will be neglected, the faculty of the department makes possible a much more nearly perfect grasp of the development of literature, and incidentally guides the student toward the natural preparation for English divisionals. If this same system could be carried over to other departments, notably that of History, another perceptible advance would be achieved...
...indefinite; but the emotions of saints nothing could be more helpful in the solution of modern world problems! And if the physical control of Hindu ascetics has no immediate application to politics it would at least be unusually valuable in everyday life with food prices mounting indefinitely and rents "perfectly frightful, you know!" in fact, if Mr. Gurdjieff can manage to corral all of the Germans, most of the Russians and a fair share of the English, French and even Americans, into his academy not of course, Insinuating that he would like such a comprehensive membership, the four thousand classic...