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Edward T. Wilcox, Director of Advanced Standing, agreed that "the experiment has not been statistically satisfactory." "The great percentage of dropouts and failures has made us cautious," he said. He emphasized, however, that it "did not behoove a college administration to take an a Priori stand on the high school program," but that it should instead look at the individual, "keeping in mind the fact that our luck has not been good...
...three pieces derived from "Victimae Paschali," the only one interesting as more than a musical exercise was Richard Wilson's Suite for Five Players (In Five Sections). While apparently making due obeisances to the contemporary requirement of a priori organization (the sequence of timbres and textures appeared well organized, i.e., sufficiently chaotic), Wilson actually indulged in the old-fashioned technique of wit. Conducting a very competent chamber ensemble (flute, clarinet, viola, cello, percussion), Wilson produced an observable change of tempo within the very first of the five sections: an event totally unexpected in view of the leaden, unchanging tempi...
Thus James rejects the primacy of the subject-object split. Distinctions between subject and object, inner and outer, self and not-self do not impress him as constituting a priori givens. Rather, he views them as "results of a later classification performed by us for particular needs." The classification or categorization is made for its utility, for its survival value; this should recall the influence of Darwin. Animals do not have a sense of self--they live in a state prior to Cogito ergo sum. So do infants. And this leads at last to Freud and his developmental scheme...
...success of group practice and cooperative insurance plans has shown that third-party payment need not lower the quality of care. Indeed, removing doctors from the business of medicine might free more of their energies for the art and science of medicine. There is no a priori reason why fee-for-service is necessary for maintaining standards within a profession. Moreover, since when visiting a doctor the public knows nothing about the good which is being purchased, fee-for-service yields no index of consumer satisfaction with the care received...
...final analysis, the argument for American and African unity rests on the undemonstrable--and perhaps slightly paranoid--act of pure faith which asserts a priori that whites and Negroes per se cannot understand one another nor collaborate in an atmosphere of equality and mutual respect. One thing is certain: the surest way to prevent equality is to convince everyone of such a thesis. Paranoid presuppositions rapidly become self-fulfilling prophecies. The ideal of equality is not refuted, it is merely rendered historically impossible by ideologies which generate racial distrust...