Word: suspectedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chapman and Brower. These gentlemen seem to have appointed themselves unofficial ministers to the board of trustees, and have taken upon their shoulders the work of keeping Cambridge drama clean. Any motive outside of sheer aesthetic sensibility on the part of the producers, such as making a profit, is suspect. A phrase much in the air when one of the three guardians is around is "New York thinking." By this is meant both an unwholesome concern for a production's financial success, and the practices of bringing famous actors and actresses to Cambridge...
Could it be that we no longer believe quite so definitely in scholarship? Perhaps we are coming to realize that confrontation with genius is not necessarily the road to insight. We have always known that knowledge and wisdom were quite different. But perhaps we now suspect that knowledge may not even be the best road to wisdom...
...This is obviously an article of faith. You can never prove that it is true, because you can never measure such understanding. The Fine Arts Department does not hold to this faith; the Music department does not hold to this faith; the language departments are beginning to suspect that there just might be something in it, and believing this, they are beginning to experiment with the teaching of composition...
...French moderns, the Hermitage moved further, hung 20 Matisses, 17 Gauguins, 19 Cézannes, 21 Monets and 24 pre-Cubist Picassos. But it will probably be years before the full glory of Soviet modern-art acquisitions is considered safe enough to be seen. Modern art is still suspect. Says cautious Hermitage Director Mikhail Artamonov: "Modern Western art is not uniform. Some new paintings are quite unacceptable for us, though doubtlessly there are some outstanding achievements of modern...
Perhaps he follows the critic's beam hoping the critic will lend it to him after a while, hoping that if he reads "Paradise Lost" often enough, he will discover his own experience. The experiment is seldom tried, and I also suspect that the poem, like the sphinx, speaks only when he expects to hear a voice, and that following the critics will produce only the voice which he has been told he will hear. If he reads a book about which he has heard enough, he can only react in those particular terms. He may reject or accept...