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...editorial tossed the word "culture" about as if it meant something. Alone, it does not. Is culture a matter of touching off the Yule log, or does it involve institutions, thoughts and habits? Or perhaps, as used last Saturday, it is just a vehicle for teaching a language, a context for declensions, If the Faculty decided to foster a culture courses, it would have to deal with this question from the very beginning...
...program, too many courses seek only to enable the student to pass the College's minimum language requirement, chaining students to grammar drill and little else. A college language course even for beginners, should offer a perspective over more than irregular verbs. Unless a language is taught in the context of a foreign culture, its fundamentals are quickly forgotten, regarded solely as means to hurdle a requirement. Yet many College language courses, themselves with only the requirement in view, plod on through the tedium of unadorned syntax...
...Partisan Review last year. More apt, the new title recognizes the two foci of the symposium: the state of American society, facing the threats of mass culture and a pressure for conformity; and the dilemma of the American intellectual, seeking a place for himself in a cultural context he can no longer flee...
From the contributors to the symposium, whether Reinhold Niebuhr or Norman Mailer, the reader receives an impression of profound dissatisfaction with the American cultural context. The impression is seldom one of complete disillusionment, though bitter essays by Mailer and Irving Howe come close, but in general a picture of hopes very far from fulfillment...
Rhinelander said there are different approaches to the study of the humanities, but stressed that they are complementary, not in conflict. "The direct aesthetic experience of a work of art may be blind, if it is not enlightened by a knowledge of the work's historical context and the course of critical opinion and analysis...