Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another asset we found at Harvard is the historical approach to Religion. We feel this is the soundest approach, as it prevents hasty crystallization, and permits a critical appraisal of all points of view, including NeoOrthodoxy and "Humanism" which as systems of religious thought cut across denominational lines, but neither of which should characterize our School...
...Francisco meeting of U.N., the period when Jimmy Byrnes conducted relations with Russia in the jovial tradition of parish-pump politics in South Carolina, when Byrnes sat back and told all who cared to listen that the great thing was to get the other fellow's point of view, when Byrnes saw the U.S. role as that of mediator-until he saw the unreality of that role, quit mediating and began to assert some U.S. ideas...
...curriculum: history taught from a worldwide (not a national) view; current events focused on the nearby U.N.; science and art, stressing the way both spread across borders; a course in U.S. "institutions, ideals and culture"; modern languages (including Russian, Chinese). Foreign students, who will be coached in English, will help teach their tongues...
...must rid itself of the 1930's philosophy of stretching out the work. Newburyport has been great fun for the storekeeper, but the real job begins with the producer. If he delays further, a price crash, recession, and unemployment will follow the Forth of July skyrockets into the national view...
Doubtless, some of these proposals will help. But unless the critic takes a more constructive view than Downes expresses in his you-can't keep-a-good-musician-down theory, neither technical training for him nor decentralization for music will keep him from hurting artists. And unless the public realizes that the critic, for from being a God of Sound, frequently goes home a "defeated man," the true defeat will continue to be rung up on the side of music and the musician...