Word: zeitgeists
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...conversation, Boring keeps returning to two topics: "the great E. B. Titchener," the magnetic tyrant of psychology at Cornell early in this century; and the Zeitgeist, a concept he uses to explain his extraordinary personal influence in the history of Harvard psychology...
...moods, often with sudden changes. One passage superimposes a subdued counterpoint in the violins over coarse grindings from the other pair and thereby stresses each feeling all the more. (It is interesting that Elliot Carter did the same in his first quartet--here, if you demand it, is a Zeitgeist.) But unlike Carter and Moevs, Layton does not set slow, soft melodies sweetly, but gives them a sustained, restful plainness. The work ends unpretentiously on that note...
Answer: The U.S. overhauls its anti-intellectual Zeitgeist, intensifies its Outer Space Program, and gives loans, grants, and encouragement to advance science education--all loans in accordance with the principle of competitive emulation...
Henry Bourne, a junior who came here with Advanced Standing, mulls over the problems of the Zeitgeist postulate in historical writing. Examining Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Huizinga's Waning of the Middle Ages, Panofsky's Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, and Southern's Making of the Middle Ages, Bourne finds that the first two historians tend to invoke a time-spirit to explain the relations between different aspects of medieval culture. The positing of a time-spirit raises questions akin to those of the nominalist-realist controversy which occupied the minds of the medieval man that these historians...
...verse drama, Tynan replied with a vigorous defense of prose. He recalled a remark of his that T.S. Eliot and Christopher Fry, the leaders of the back-to-verse movement, reminded him of "two very energetic swimming instructors giving lessons in an empty pool.... I think, when the whole zeitgeist is toward prose, when prose has so recently been made respectable (nobody dreamed of writing a serious play in prose before 1870), when we're learning so rapidly about the possibilities of prose ... I just cannot go along with people, like Eliot, who say that there are realms of human...