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...things is to imply that a person is something that can be stopped mid-flight, scooped down and examined, calculated about. The person is then a human being who is not being and not becoming, but a person who rather is and was--static, holding still and saying, "I am this," "I took over that building because...
...real trouble is that the symphony has been for too long a plaything of the wealthy. Even though symphony-going is not dominated by the rich to the extent that it was 40 years ago, it is still a formal experience that most turned-on youth regard as static, outmoded and irrelevant. As the conservative, 19th century-oriented programming of most orchestras proves, the institutions are trapped into patterns of pleasing the wealthy patrons who support them-and by and large, the patrons like Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky. This does not mean that the orchestras would automatically attract larger audiences...
...things is to imply that a person is something that can be stopped in midflight, scooped down and examined, calculated about. The person is then a human being who is not being and not becoming, but a person who rather is and was--static, holding still and saying, "I am this," "I took over that building because...
...when faith is identified with propositions, but it becomes a flexible notion when a distinction is made between the reality of faith and statements made about it." Catholic Theologian Eugene C. Bianchi of Emory University suggests that the whole notion of heresy rests on the presumption that doctrine is static rather than dynamic and subject to change...
...second philosophical conviction is that language influences behavior. Mankind is much less aware of the implacable reality of change simply because his language is dominated by the verb "to be," which implies a static quality of illusory permanence. "Our language," says Bourland, "remains the language of absolutes. The chief offender remains the verb 'to be.' The spurious identity it so readily connotes perverts our perception of reality...