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...Protest. Had he chosen, Franco could have made at least one valid boast. From the political doghouse to which it was banished along with Franco's erstwhile friends, the Nazis and Fascists, Spain is step by step returning to the community of nations. Franco's anti-Communism and his nation's strategic peninsular location have brought him an alliance with...
...been the historical method, best exemplified by Fine Arts 13 and Music 1. Walter Gropius, famed professor emeritus, castigates this approach for an undue reliance upon "passive absorbtion" instead of upon active creation. As the 1956 Report of the Committee on the Visual Arts indicated, there is a valid and necessary place for such a verbal approach, but it should not be considered sufficient by itself to convey a deep understanding of the artistic processes--essentially non-verbal--which play such a widespread role in society. Along this line the introduction of the new Music 2 course in theory...
Clouds was directed against the educational practices of the Sophists in general, and of Socrates in particular. The fact that Socrates was not a valid representative of the Sophists made no difference; a well-known whipping dog was needed, and fairness be damned. Ironically, Aristophanes could vent his aristocratic and antisocratic bias only in a highly democratic community that permitted slander, libel, blasphemy, and indecency. Socrates (played with gusto and the proper amount of eccentricity by Upton Brady) appears as the pettifogging proprietor of a "think-shop," a sort of Rube Goldberg of the intellect with his head...
...that "nonobjective art claims validity only for its mechanics, for the material with which it is made" rejecting man, his life, his visions, his future, I raise one voice in dissent. In the few directions we were able to look during the 1920s, whether to past cultures or the scientific and social myths of our own, it was sharply clear that in them lay few answers valid for a man of vision...
...When TIME's Denis Fodor arrived in Baghdad that day on a plane from Beirut, with a valid visa for Iraq, he was refused permission to stay...