Word: refashioning
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...advance guard demands. Far from wishing to needle the bourgeoisie, as did the School-of-Paris moderns half a century ago, the young pioneers of American painting crave appreciation. When it is not forthcoming, some of them sulk and some shrug. But none of them seems to laugh. "To refashion the fashioned, lest it stiffen into iron, means an endless vital activity," they argue with Goethe. They solemnly reiterate that since impressionism, cubism and abstractionism have proved meaningful over the years, abstract expressionism will, too. And curiously enough, this wishful argument-by-analogy does cow some critics and win over...
...Columbia's Edward L. Thorndike developed ways of measuring intelligence and aptitude. To his disciples the millennium seemed at hand. At last, they announced triumphantly, there was no longer any need to follow oldtime curriculums blindly. Since memory, ability, interests, and even personality could be measured, educators could refashion their programs scientifically...
...life which has yet to be broken that a nation can only earn the right to live soft by being prepared to die hard in defense of its living. . . . May the spirit of adventure and self-sacrifice . . . stay with us after the war, when we undertake ... to refashion a shattered world...
...Harkness gift to Yale which took away from Harvard the latter's famed 47 workshop, a playwriting part of the Fine Arts College embodied in Professor George Pierce Baker. Now another Harkness gift, declined by Yale, is going to refashion Harvard's most ancient and central aspect, oldtime Harvard College, to which the university's graduate schools are comparatively recent and traditionally minor adjuncts. Beneath the Lampoon's youthful vulgarity and ink-intoxicated rudeness there seemed to be a note of genuine bitterness which, since Harvard men are often sad, may have adumbrated some portion of adult Harvard sentiment...
After the first quarter of the century the Democratic party was awakened by its metropolitan members to the realization that politics had become Big Business and Big Business politics in the U. S. Long before Gov. Smith's nomination it was known that he would refashion the popular concept of his party, perhaps by a preelection indication of outstanding businessmen whom he would ask to help him conduct the government if he were elected (TIME, March...