Word: utilitarian
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...Very Reverend John A. O'Brien, S.J., President of Holy Cross and a former professor of Philosophy at Boston College, prefers to look at the problem in a more utilitarian way. Admitting that Holy Cross takes pride in a reputation as a good "liberal arts" college and explaining that one course in Religion is required every year to all but the 22 non-Catholics in the college, Father O'Brien says, "We are not secularistic in the technical sense--divorcing the study of religion from education--simply because we do not feel that the study of religion has no educational...
...comes from its cheapening by would-be wits, e.g., the golfer who specified: "Scatter me well over the tenth green at the club. It's been my nemesis so often I want to haunt the place." The Rev. Geoffrey Hilder called ash-scattering "pagan -even if it is utilitarian." Canon Cyril Sansbury denounced "sprinkling someone's remains in his own rose garden . . . in hope that dear George who died last year would grow up into new roses next year. I call this a kind of pantheism...
Poet Viereck thinks that U.S. educators can best discharge their responsibilities to future generations by swinging away from "the short-sighted cult of utilitarian studies" and back towards the humanities with their "reverence for integrity, not because it's fashionable but because it's true." Such a reverence "would work a moral revolution deeper and more helpful than all the shallow artistic and political and economic revolts of our panting apostles of progress. It would be a moral revolution against that inner smirk which prefers cleverness to wisdom...
...housewife," he said, "will consider a table from a utilitarian angle. A carpenter will note the way it is made and the quality of the wood used. A poet-a bad poet -will find in it a symbol of the peace of the home. And so on ... For a painter, it will quite simply be a grouping of flat, colored forms. And I mean flat...
They pursued the simple principle that every object can have an ideal form which, with economy and grace, can express its function. Through centuries of trial & error many of man's simplest tools −the ax helve, the plowshare, the ox yoke −had achieved a utilitarian perfection of design. In essence, industrial design was a brave attempt to bring the same simplicity to all the goods and tools of modern living. The depression, when industrialists were willing to try anything to boost sales, gave the designers their first big chance to show what they could...