Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Under the existing trade agreement between the management and the members of the Orchestra, nobody is allowed into a rehearsal except by a majority vote of the Orchestra. Such a vote was held recently, and the musicians unanimously agreed to admit students...
...most vocal of the signers was Ad Reinhardt, who paints as abstractly as possible. "Anyone who would sit down to paint grass today," says Reinhardt, "is just an illustrator. What we see isn't real; everybody knows that." Reinhardt's pictures have nothing to do with anything except "the aesthetic experience, the painting experience...
Logical positivism (a close relative of U.S. Philosopher John Dewey's pragmatism) erects its system of thought on the premise that no statement (except in logic and mathematics) may be considered meaningful if it is not potentially verifiable by evidence of the senses. The idea of God is one of the first things that logical positivists throw overboard. Last week Philosopher Tony Quinton of All Souls' College undertook to dispose of God in the heart of the enemy camp, the Roman Catholic undergraduate Aquinas Society...
...went on, "obviously didn't create Himself. The only thing outside of everything is nothing. Therefore, if God created everything except what is outside of everything, namely nothing, and if God is the only thing outside everything, then . God is nothing...
...Saunderstown, Thompson is famous for everything. Everything, that is, except being a Harvard professor and widely known composer. He has, for example, a reputation for being an outstanding charade player, a distinction he gained by such escapades as twining himself in ivy leaves to play Bacchus and giving a performance of the "Dying Swan...