Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of immediate experience held too much allure. Systematically thinking he deemed valuable in as much as it facilitates effective action action bearing desirable consequence in the realm of pure, raw, personal experience. Although he blamed hear lecture commitments for his failure to write a "syllogistic" metaphysic his own temperament most probability was the real culprit. The beatific vision of William James is not one of regular polygons and concatenate syllogisms, but a paradise of pine woods aromas, Italian Renaissance art, and home-cooked food...
Princeton president Robert F. Goheen condemned the disturbance as a "shocking display of individual and collective hooliganism," the Daily Princetonian reported. "As a surrender to raw, mass impulse," Goheen said, "and as an occasion for mob violence, any riot is reprehensible." Officials have indicated that several students may be expelled...
Even though James gave primacy to pure, raw values, he did not disparage consistency as an ideal. On occasion critics have accused him of advocating belief in whatever seems most pleasant at a given moment. James considered this accusation an "impudent slander" involving a fundamental misunderstanding of pragmatism. He visualized himself, in fact, as pent in "between the whole body of funded truths squeezed from the past and the coercions of the world of sense about...
Words like "stark" and "raw" have been used both to praise and to criticize Le Corbusier's buildings. However, little has been said about one of the most primitive features of the new Visual Arts Center; the tall colored panels between the windows can be opened to provide a degree of natural ventilation in the upper four floors. This innovation would not have surprised the Indian who left a smoke hole in the top of his tepee and generous gaps around the bottom, but subsequent American architecture has largely overcome natural ventilation...
...Japanese government with low-interest loans and low-rate investment in surance. Japan calculates that this investment will even out its slight imbalance of trade with Latin America; last year it sold $224 million worth of goods to the area, but bought $225 million worth, mostly cotton and other raw materials. The new factories will not only use Japanese parts, but also, as one Japanese businessman explains, "will make Latin America wealthier, and thus open big markets for our consumer goods...