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Page 348
... become infinitely more serious and appears likely to become threatening in the near future . For many reasons standards are much more in need of defence than they used to be . It is perhaps pre- mature to envisage a collapse of values ...
... become infinitely more serious and appears likely to become threatening in the near future . For many reasons standards are much more in need of defence than they used to be . It is perhaps pre- mature to envisage a collapse of values ...
Page 355
... becomes only second in im- portance to physiological necessities , those , namely , upon which communication and the ability to co - operate depend . But these , since man is a social creature , also become more directly necessary to ...
... becomes only second in im- portance to physiological necessities , those , namely , upon which communication and the ability to co - operate depend . But these , since man is a social creature , also become more directly necessary to ...
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Lionel Trilling. avoid interpretation , art may become parody . Or it may become abstract . Or it may become ( " merely " ) decorative . Or it may become non - art . The flight from interpretation seems particularly a feature of modern ...
Lionel Trilling. avoid interpretation , art may become parody . Or it may become abstract . Or it may become ( " merely " ) decorative . Or it may become non - art . The flight from interpretation seems particularly a feature of modern ...
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