In a message dated 6/1/09 1:18:00 PM, [email protected] writes:
> In a message dated 6/1/09 11:26:41 AM, [email protected] writes: > > > > Daniel Bell's hollow statement was: "...In the nineteenth and early > > twentieth centuries[,]...for...the artists and the educated social > > classes...the > > exploration of all impulses became an aesthetic norm." > > > > I protested that Bell's statement had too many undefined terms: e.g. > > 'exploration', 'impulses', 'aesthetic', 'norms', 'class', 'all'. > > > > Never mind the undefined terms, in the nineteenth and early twentieth > centuries most of the people on both sides in my family were educated and > they > never thought of exploring their impulses as aesthetic norms. They > impulsively went west, planted peach trees, went to Burma, stayed home and > preached,went to war, started magazines, and built pianos- but they > didn't do > aesthetic norms. And they kept journals so we would know. What is Bell > talking > about? > KAte Sullivan > > ************** An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377040x1201454360/aol?redir=http ://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62& bcd=JuneExcfooterNO62)
