Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian Renaissance attempt, quite unsuccessfully, to cope with some of the more extreme forms of modernism; I concluded that his powers of connoisseurship were not translatable into the present tense. Not the least "dangerous" thing about the arts in our time is their demand that we see in them something more than the application of age-old principles to now materials, their claim that the new forms must inevitably change old conceptions of what constitutes "beauty", what constitutes indeed a work of art. Since it is quite probable that there are as many masterpieces ahead of us as behind...
...sense of humor? But they really aren't an had as all that; they've just been brought up wrong. I was in a revue over there this summer, a hodge podge of everything I've done here for the past five years, but the audience just couldn't see eye to eye with an American one is picking their laughs...
Actually--and unfortunately--there is no question of "inviting ourselves" into anything. The alternatives are not isolation and war. For those with eyes to see, the evidence that America cannot be isolated is overwhelmingly convincing. Were it possible to discard the psychological element, the inevitable unncutrality of thinking, it would not be politically possible to crect the foreign trade controls, the internal industrial and agricultural management, and the price fixing, that would be necessary to prevent our economic system from involving us in the conflict. It is not "war mongering," as Hitler and American isolationists insist, for the President...
...Charles R. Apted will take over Lehman Hall: "President Conant and about twelve members of the University attending the meeting, already have their reservations on the Caravan. Who's next? "The Caravan choo choos along and picks up more Harvard men at each stop (see how it works)." No sooner settled in the deep South at their headquarters, the Hotel Roosevelt, the Harvard gentlemen will have to face three busy days. At symposia, business meetings, and graduate school seminars, such topics as "Youth Dons the Toga of Citizenship," "The Student helps the Dean" and "Shifting Postulates in Modern Legal Development...
...What makes me particularly happy about my editorials is the fact that a great many college people have written in to commend my stand. It's really very heartening to see that a college now prepares its students to face world problems with good judgment. Publicity won't be able to put another World War over on them...