Word: schiller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred strong, the mob marched westward with its massed flags along Little Rock's 14th Street toward Central High School, shouting, cursing, and singing to the tune of Dixie: "In Arkansas, in the state of cotton/ Federal courts are good and rotten." At the intersection of 14th and Schiller Avenue the marchers came hard up against a thin line of Little Rock policemen. Four men of the mob rushed the line, trying to break through -and at that moment the clock seemed about to turn back two years to the race riots, incited by Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus...
Cracking Sharply. Carried by the marchers were five American flags, one Arkansas banner-and placards proclaiming, RACE MIXING IS COMMUNISM and FOLLOW FAUBUS FOR FREEDOM. Police cars trailed along, radioed Chief Smith that the trouble would come at 14th and Schiller. Smith and his cops were waiting. As the marchers came close, Smith yelled through his electronic "bull-voice" megaphone: "We're not going to stand for any foolishness...
Idealism for Schiller, Atkins emphasized, did not mean the offering of a Utopia, but rather a spirit of freedom which harmoniously combined feeling and reason. Nor was there any "blind romantic idealism" in the poet's system, for Schiller felt that pure freedom existed only in the realm of dreams and that practical freedom was limited by moral...
Stuart Atkins, professor of German here at Harvard, discussed "Friedrich Schiller and Ideal Drama," in the final lecture of the Thursday afternoon series last week. He explained the nature of the German dramatist's idealistic philosophy...
Atkins also pointed out that Schiller was a "modern" poet since he knew the abyss between the real and the ideal could not be bridged. Schiller felt all art was merely a representation of idealism and should not be confused with real history. Action alone, not moral sentiment, determined drama...