Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...logic was well taken that described the drift of a student representative from the stage of realizing his fellows' indifference toward his service to that of irresponsible, self-centered action. Yet I wonder whether this reasoning was not carried too far and applied too broadly. To say that the responsible representative is a rare bird takes too little account, I think, of several important factors: First, there is no single group of "representatives;" a student who leads in one activity follows in most of the rest, and so never loses the sense of membership in the community. Secondly, and more...
...April 13 letter to the Kremlin leader, Eisenhower said negotiators at the stalemated Geneva talks then could turn to further discussion looking toward a general ban on such tests. That would include detonations in outer space and under-ground...
...last weekend as a visiting lion at Winthrop House, a critic's specific opinions are less important than the attitudes that underlie them. In Tynan's case, private conversation reinforces the impression given by his articles in the New Yorker, where he is guest critic, that his basic attitude toward the theatre is a deeply serious one. In a profession populated largely by somnambulistic hacks, his Shavian emphasis on the relation of drama to life is rare and valuable. But his seriousness never declines into solemnity; his awareness of the social significance of the stage is leavened...
...Tynan replied with a vigorous defense of prose. He recalled a remark of his that T.S. Eliot and Christopher Fry, the leaders of the back-to-verse movement, reminded him of "two very energetic swimming instructors giving lessons in an empty pool.... I think, when the whole zeitgeist is toward prose, when prose has so recently been made respectable (nobody dreamed of writing a serious play in prose before 1870), when we're learning so rapidly about the possibilities of prose ... I just cannot go along with people, like Eliot, who say that there are realms of human experience...
...what earned Frank Lloyd Wright the grudging but nearly universal respect of his fellow architects was his insistence that architecture must be an art. "What people want, what they desperately need," Wright said, "is some communication of the spirit, some quality of the soul." It was toward that aim that Wright's whole genius was directed. Almost uniquely among architects, he was able to develop his own particular vision in terms of one highly individualistic but consistent idiom of forms. His prodigious explorations of space and form marked and celebrated Frank Lloyd Wright and his own time on earth...