Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference, which will run for two days on April 21 and 22, were received yesterday at Princeton when Nelson A. Rockefeller and Bernard K. Schaefer, President of the Colombia-America Chamber of Commerce, accepted for the Latin-American table; and when Dr. B. M. Little, Regional Director of the Social Security Board, and Dr. William Waller, Assistant Surgeon-General, United States Public Health Service indicated they would participate in the discussion at the social security table...
...what extent are these functions of art instruction given place in our curricula and in our class-room methods? Only too frequently works of art are presented to students as aesthetic fragments torn from, their context in the lives, the ideas, the social habits, the cultural practices which produced them--very much as works of art are presented in a museum. This procedure, often necessary for the investigator-scholar, is a great disadvantage to the general student of art. His ignorance of the circumstances in which a great picture was painted, or a building constructed, not only limits the range...
Every experiment in art is a collaboration between artist and layman. Artists now realize this. For the artist, as Holger Cahill wrote, "a new concept of social loyalty and responsibility, of the artist's union with his fellow men in origin and destiny, seems to be replacing the romantic concept of nature which for so many years gave to artists and to many others a unifying approach to art . . . an end seems to be in sight to the kind of detachment which removed the artist from common experience, and which at its worst gave rise to an art merely...
...power." What Dr. Prosser would substitute is "specific education" for the secondary schools, and under this vocationalism he would add to the curriculum such subjects as practice in the use of English as "a tool of communication," business English, current events in economics, wholesome recreation in the community, social amenities and manners and the use of leisure time...
...this is as it should be. Interspersed are chapters of Steinbeck's own comments which do not particularly heighten the effect. For the Joads and their friends are well able to speak for themselves. They are substantial enough to maintain their courage despite the downward push of economic and social forces. It is the play of these forces that brings out the best both in Steinbeck's book and in the Joads...