Is it not characteristic of the greatest art that it confronts us with something we cannot clarify, demanding that the viewer respond to it in his own never-predictable way??

For better or worse we cannot regard `` imitation '' in the arts in the simple mode of classical rationalism or detached realism.

On the other hand, we cannot regard artistic invention as pure, uncaused, and unrelated to the times in which it occurs.

We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.

But even if we cannot see the repulsive characteristics in this new image of America, foreigners can ; ;

If we cannot stop warfare in our own economic system, how can we expect to abolish it internationally??

I cannot express to you the depth of my conviction that, in our own and free world interest, we must co-operate with others to help these people achieve their legitimate ambitions, as expressed in their different multi-year plans.

In this domain the simple fact of coexistence in the same local, national, and world community is enough to guarantee that we cannot refrain from having some effect, large or small, upon Gentile-Jewish relations.

Still, we must remember that we cannot construct and justify generalizations of this sort unless we are ready to consider many special instances of influence moving between such areas as theology, philosophy, political thought, and literature.

I submit that it cannot be dismissed simply by saying we are not facing the facts of life.

He seems to have at least a few 30- and 50-megaton bombs on hand, since we cannot assume that he has exploded his entire stock.

We can force Britain and France out of the Suez, but we cannot so much as try to force the Russian tanks back from Budapest.

We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.

And it becomes clear why in general we cannot take the initiative against the Left.

Not only, as we know, did Chou En-lai publicly treat Khrushchev's attack on Albania as `` something that we cannot consider as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach '' to the problem ( i.e., as something thoroughly dictatorial and `` undemocratic '' ), but the Albanian leaders went out of their way to be openly abusive to Khrushchev, calling him a liar, a bully, and so on.

This isn't surprising when we consider that over 29 percent of the 11-year-old boys in America cannot chin themselves once, and that English school girls outdo them in almost every test ( even dashes and endurance ).

`` If we cannot tell evil, horror, and insanity from nonsense, what is the future of humor and comedy ''??

Even if we marshal substantial agreement behind mandatory public education, we likely cannot expect that all the states will enact the legislation.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

Its the start of a direct threat to our own security and I don't believe we can permit that ''.

Clearly we can do this: We start at the first box, choose an item ; go to the second box, choose an item ; and so on.

They had planned to sell this engine to motor manufacturers, but having heard that the Aston Martin car was no longer in production they realised that they could capitalise on the reputation of the Aston Martin name ( what we would now call the brand ) to give themselves a head start in the production of a completely new car.

To find the triangle that contains v, we start at a root triangle, and follow the pointer that points to a triangle that contains v, until we find a triangle that has not yet been replaced.

The same can be said about verbs, in all the languages in the world: when should we stop saying " walk " and start saying " run "?

The same happens, of course, with adjectives: when must we stop saying " yellow " and start saying " orange ", or exchange " past " for " present?

Director John Carpenter decided to add the original scenes into the special edition release as an extra only: " After we screened the rough cut, we realized that the movie didn't really start until Snake got to New York.

The enthalpy H ( S, p ) of homogeneous systems can be derived as a characteristic function of the entropy S and the pressure p as follows: we start from the first law of thermodynamics for closed systems for an infinitesimal process

If we do not attempt to look back at an event, the greater the interval time between the time when the event from happening and the time when we try to remember, the memory will start to fade.

So the Buddha said that unless we understand this and see how pervasive dissatisfaction or duhkha is, it is impossible for us to start looking for real happiness.

But the task is hopeless in principle — every representation ignores something about the world — hence the best we can do is start with a good guess.

It was not until they started cooperating with Henrik Tore Cedergren in 1883 that the company would start to grow into the Ericsson corporation as we know it today.

This finally marks the start of the public library as we know it.

In fact, when protests were raised, Jeschonnek himself said, " First we've got to beat Russia, then we can start training!

All of us have been writing individually, I write, Nikki's been writing, and Mick as well, at some point here, we'll pull all of our ideas together as we always do, and then we'll start sorting through it at that point.

:" My thesis is ," says, " That if we start with the supposition that there is only one primal stuff or material in the world, a stuff of which everything is composed, and if we call that stuff ' pure experience ,' then knowing can easily be explained as a particular sort of relation towards one another into which portions of pure experience may enter.

It is only here that we can start to speak of a clear, conscious division between numbers ( integers and the rationals — the subjects of arithmetic ) and lengths ( real numbers, whether rational or not ).

Having calculated the parenthetical part of the expression, we start over again beginning with the left most value and move right.

As with the non-inverting amplifier, we start with the gain equation of the op-amp:

We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.

Are we better off for having Shakespeare's idea of Shylock??

The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion mounted by the administration last April, which, we trust, is not symptomatic of the methods to be invoked in holding off the felonious Khrushchev.

In short, get this governmental monstrosity off our backs and we won't have to worry about European competition or Communism either.

They set bouncing betties to jump and explode at testicle level while we more mercifully had them go off at the head.

We came down off the wall as if he had toppled all of us, and we crouched behind it.

Large, long-range bombers can be developed which would have the capability to take off from 3,000-foot runways, but they would require more powerful engines than we have today.

Since by the principle of optimality the remaining stages use an optimal Af-stage policy with respect to Af, we may enter section Af of the table at this state Af and read off the optimal policy for stage Af and the resulting state Af.

Then we were off again.

Crossing the 4,000-foot width of the Mekong at Champassak, on a raft with an outboard motor, we took off our dusty shirts and enjoyed a veritable ocean breeze.

After the usual Honorable Sirs, it went on to say that there had been set off to the widow one full third part of the real estate of the deceased Salu Norberg, one lower room, on the Western side, privileges to the well and bake-oven and to one third of the cellar ( I can show you the cellar when we go up ), also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the widow her own land that she brought with her as dower, namely the Beech Pasture.

That made up for the `` best '' motel in Norman, Okla., where the proprietor knocked $2 off the $8.50 tab when we found ants in the pressed-paper furniture.

Yet are not we of the mid-twentieth century, who rightly do not believe there is any such `` thing '' as the devil, just as bad off as they -- only in a different way??

Only in its final scene, where Beatie Bryant ( Mary Doyle ) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual lover and proclaims her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch for most of the first two and one-half acts.

And so off we went to her apartment.

We never learn anything about her husband, but we do know that she hates alcohol and public appearances, and has a great fondness for apples until she is put off them by the events of Hallowe ' en Party.

" He takes it as obvious that we can detect the presence of consciousness and dismisses these replies as being off the point.

" We knew they were bringing great talent through their farm system, but we certainly didn't expect it to pay off with big-league success so quickly ," said Will Lingo, editor of Baseball America.

Eye Care (" see if I care "), Russian chauffeur Pikov Andropov (" pick up and drop off "), Leo Tolstoy biographer Warren Peace (" War and Peace "), and law firm Dewey, Cheetham and Howe (" Do we cheat ' em?

They also agreed that " we shall by all means labor to keep off from us all such as are contrary minded, and receive only such unto us as may be probably of one heart with us, such as that we either know or may well and truly be informed to walk in a peaceable conversation with all meekness of spirit, for the edification of each other in the knowledge and faith of the Lord Jesus …" The covenant also stipulated that if differences were to arise between townsmen, they would seek arbitration for resolution and each would pay his fair share for the common good.