Word: priori
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...darkness, and prove the value of small reading-clubs like the Stratford club and the Old Shakespeare Club be of Cambridge, whose delight, in "Much Ado," qun play, was notably above the response, even of those speculator who plumed themselves on having seen this or that star and a priori judged the amateurs by that unfair standard. Yours very truly, William C. Holbrook...
...handing out so many top priori ties for reconversion tools and minor new construction that it is confident the plants will be ready when the signal comes...
...comfortably derogatory classifications which their critics have invented for the sake of bolstering the critics own self-confidence. Competence, unfortunately for Mr. Weren, is where you find it, and you have to keep looking. Too many are led astray by those neat maps of the universe provided by a priori assumption. Twelve more years may teach Mr. Weren that however he may choose to classify people they are not likely to share his beautiful dream that they, and not he, are asleep...
...Lewis, an artist himself, should know better than to make such statements. In the first place, who said that Picasso was trying to convey mass? No one except Mr. Lewis and the catalogue which accompanied the exhibit. And both are mistaken. Rather than enter upon an "a priori" discussion of what the artist intended to convey by examining the painting, I shall tell briefly what the artist has conveyed and give Picasso the benefit of the doubt by saying that he intended it. We must not take "period" catchwords nor catalogue quotations as standards by which a painting...
...this new medium is despicably low. Chiefly because of restrictions imposed by advertisers, radio to date has produced few programs of any cultural value whatsoever. To give the devil his due, classical music has never before been so widely disseminated, but in general, program directors seem to assume, a priori, that the average listener's intelligence is little above the ten-year age level. As a result instead of making even a feeble effort to improve the average mind, the guiding hands of radio chose long ago the path of least resistance--programs are brought down to the average level...