Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole thing is ridiculous and I sometimes get quite worked up about it. The whole idea seems to give one the impression that life is futile. What's the good of looking forward if always there hangs a cloud of envy, spite, malice, etc., etc. over countries which are in themselves beautiful and where only man is vile...
...imminent since Federal Arts, affecting comparatively few people, have few defenders. The strongly individualistic professional class knows no such politically powerful organizations as labor or Big Business. Instead they are content to sit contentedly in their ivory towers and watch their interests, less directly the interests of the whole country, guillotined by Congressional executioners...
...fact that the suggestions made by the protesting Freshmen are so manifestly shallow and hurriedly gotten-up leads one to the inevitable conclusion that the whole outburst has been prompted by a personal indignation rather than by a constructive desire to rectify a pressing problem...
...upperclass body as a whole went to fewer lectures than the Freshmen who are taking the same courses this year, according to the poll returns. They report that in History I they went to only 55% of the lectures as compared with the Freshman figures...
...which does not allow for an after-reverberation in the mind of the audience of the theme which the artist is trying to present. The artist, in attempting to express himself in such a fashion that his idea will be made clear to the onlooker, throws his whole subjective self into his creation with the result that not a great deal is left to the imagination of the spectator. Most great artists have left a slight gap between themselves and those who are receiving their paintings, thereby allowing for the expansion of their themes in relation to the intelligence...