Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-seven athletes weighed in between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. yesterday at the indoor Athletic Building in preparation for the University boxing championships. The fighting gets under way in the Boxing Room of the Blockhouse at 3 p.m. this afternoon, and continues sporadically until the finals Thursday night...
...grand total of the word culture smashed into bits and pieces of semitruths. To reassemble it and grasp its full significance, he insists, the western world must first realize that all aspects of culture are not only related to each other but must overlap and interlock in such a way that they form a living whole...
...state of culture? With a bluntness never shown by the everyday old-Tory apologist, Eliot flatly demands a society that is divided into classes-and stays divided. Like Bernard Shaw, we may argue for a classless society in which aristocrats are replaced by "elites"; a society in which the way up is open to all, but in which we will recognize and pay and properly honor "superior individuals...
...Downs. What about the lower classes in such a society? Eliot answers that culture recognizes no such thing as "lower" classes, it draws sustenance from all It is right and proper for certain ambitious men to fight their way up into the peerage, but the majority are better off sticking to their respective birthrights, each class contributing its special way of life to the culture whole...
...next essential, concludes Eliot, is for "the great majority of human beings [to] go on living in the place in which they were born." Regional habits, dialects, loyalties, eccentricities and faiths all contribute to a national culture by ensuring vital "friction between its parts." In the same way, different national cultures help towards the unity of international culture; men of good will who dream of nothing but ideological and international unanimity are, Eliot warns, culture's worst enemies. In the Eliotian western world, Catholic must continue to debate with Protestant, theist with atheist, class with class, creating a "Christendom...