Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gropper Gallery, the other an exhibit of works by Lionel and Lux Feininger currently at the Cambridge Art Association Gallery. These artists, with whom we intend to deal in subsequent reviews, very conveniently represent two major aspects of Modern German Art. Kathe Kollowitz illustrates expressionism and its social awareness and Feininger combines a kind of constructivism with an intellectual rather than emotional response to life...
...University has long been famed for the great amount of individual freedom it grants. The University has also gained renown as a "melting pot" of nationalities. But when the two are combined, in the case of the foreign student, the result is often academic and social bewilderment...
...first leaders were Ramakrishna (1836-86) and his disciple, Vivekananda (1863-1902). Mystical Ramakrishna, who said he reached union with God through Islam and Christianity as well as Hinduism, presented Vedanta as a religion of direct experience rather than mere traditional observance. Vivekananda injected a new sense of social responsibility by stressing Hinduism's teaching that God is in every man. Mahatma Gandhi (whom Agnostic Nehru once called "terribly Hindu") showed India how practical and effective religion could be even in the field of politics. Nehru carried on Gandhi's social reforms, introducing laws that sheared away...
...important of these new interpretations is that of Maya. Reality, says the classic Vedanta doctrine, is one-hence all plurality (Maya) is illusion. And if all man experiences is illusion, why worry about anything? This interpretation is widely blamed for the traditional passivity of Indians and their unconcern with social injustice. Radhakrishnan argues, says Moses, that "the spatiotemporal world is no empty dream or inexplicable illusion. It is only a lower order of reality, an order which has no being in itself but only in God." Consequently, this world becomes real, ethical behavior serious, and human history meaningful...
Ferry's plan is based upon the valid assumption that the Houses should become the social and intellectual centers of Harvard, both to improve the present situation and prepare for any future expansion. Otherwise, Harvard might become a vast, diffuse intellectual factory...