Word: view
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finley opened the debate with a ten-minute argument in which he emphasized the value of a classical education, which takes an objective view of the whole span of modern events with an eye to classical parallel situations. He also asserted that the classical writers treated of the general phases of human endeavor and that since our modern civilization is based on cold fact, we need the classics as a balance...
Such criticism is worthless, and a musical should be judged not with vague phrases of pseudo-theatrical appreciation but from the point of view of entertainment alone. In entertainment Mr. Wiman has scored again; like "I Married an Angel," "Great Lady" has the gay, colorful, humorous touch that springs only from the talent of a master in the art of musical production...
...second act that Mr. Rice falters. The author weakens his position by choosing that Captain Dale sell the ancestral seat to the "German-American Culture Society," presently launching his characters into vehement tirades of anti Nazi propaganda; furthermore he limits his point of view by making one of Dale's ancestors a rabid Northerner, and another no less a personage than Harriet Beecher Stowe...
...meaning to another, Korzybski calls abstracting. Purpose of his instruction is to make individuals conscious of this process, teach them that a word or symbol is not identical with the object it represents, slow up their automatic, conditioned responses to symbols. The concept of "identity," in Korzybski's view, is responsible for mankind's "false knowledge," harmful nervous reactions (e.g., a child who hates all men because it is mistreated by its father...
...purpose the increase of concentration in the social sciences. In many ways the tendency to overemphasize these subjects at the expense of the purely cultural liberal arts courses is regrettable. But it does seem necessary that every student have at least a grounding in political principles in view of the chaotic governmental and economic problems of today...