Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...published letters are answered at scholarly length in the column. For a reader inquiring about the uses of leisure, Adler paraphrased Aristotle: "Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary, but it does not enrich or ennoble a human life. Leisure, in contrast, consists of all those activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually and spiritually." Asked to define justice, he quoted Justinian-"Render to each his due"-and Mortimer J. Adler-"Treat equals equally and unequals unequally in proportion to their inequality." Occasionally, Adler is stumped by a reader's question...
However the shelf may be employed, its full utilitarian potential certainly should be exploited. Embarrasingly enough, the Square now has a form to which some function must be fitted. There's no reason why Harvard Square, like any other square, should not toe the modern American line. No matter how ugly it is--if it works...
...University displays its disdain for speech by refusing to count more than two half courses, and sometimes only one, for the degree. Although speech courses are given under the auspices of the English Department, no speech course can be counted for concentration in English. In contrast with another utilitarian art, three full courses in English composition can be counted for the degree; two full composition courses can be counted for English concentration...
...Atmosphere. Another factor is a deepening U.S. appreciation of fine art-and a desire to own it. Says Spencer Samuels, president of French: "People are striving for individuality. There is enough uniformity in the utilitarian items in a home. Some businessmen furnish their offices with fine antiques. They figure they spend a third of their lives in the office, and they want a pleasant atmosphere...
...America, Christianity faces the danger of becoming a utilitarian faith, a faith that is practiced for the sake of getting something here and now," said Yale University's H. Richard Niebuhr, professor of theology, in a lecture at the University of Michigan. A utilitarian faith, declared Theologian Niebuhr (brother of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr), is "the kind that says it is a good thing to believe in God because it will make you prosperous. A utilitarian faith takes the form of mental health. It allays anxiety. It makes you feel as you feel when you've had a good...