Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gieseking was never a Nazi party member, although he found it convenient to go along with the German government when the going was good. But the important point is not his polities, which are evidently reprehensible, but the question of whether the work of an artist can be considered separately from his polities. That question has been answered rather consistently by free societies in the past. The western world has taken into its culture the works of many artists whose politics were at least as vicious as those of Gieseking--Richard Wagner and Ezra Pound, to name two. If Gieseking...
...concluding, speech of the day, attempted to show that the transfer of power, from central Europe to the perifery states, and form the middle class to the industrial workers, can best be met by a new third power center around the North Sea and by achieving a halfway point between free enterprise and collectivism...
...team has not yet elected a captain to succeed Ray and may name one on a point system based on the remaining matches. This is the least of Butch Jordan's exam period worries...
...fundamental question is evidently one of policy--the extent of co-education. The Radcliffe and Harvard authorities have made up their minds on this point, and their convictions are beyond the influence of editorials. They believe it should be limited, and though we may quarrel with this view we cannot at this time quarrel fruitfully...
...Many point out that the school is taking the place of the frontier as a means of social mobility in American society," he said. "Once it was, 'Go west young man!' Now a young man looks to education to improve himself. Schools are a national responsibility. I do not see how their function is inconsistent with some centralization...