( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.

The unit of form is determined subjectively: `` the Heart, by the way of the Breath, to the Line ''.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

But in this approach it is the artist's ultimate insight, rather than his immediate impressions, that gives form to the work.

It is through the metamorphosed dancer that the germ of form is discovered.

It only means that there will be new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else.

That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation, because it exists as a problem separate from the material it accommodates.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now ''.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.

But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

In a bold, sometimes careless, form there is nothing academic ; ;

This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

But let us not complain of the evils of capitalism by referring to a form that is not truly capitalistic.

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

For this purpose a degree of intellectual and emotional involvement is necessary ; ;

Wonder is indeed the intellectual gateway to the spiritual world.

But now he knows `` that an intellectual is not only a man to whom books are necessary, he is any man whose reasoning, however elementary it may be, affects and directs his life ''.

This is simply a confession of intellectual sterility spruced up to look virtuous.

To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.

Despite its rather long intellectual history, alienation is still a promising hypothesis and not a verified theory.

Until such work is done, there must remain the nagging suspicion that alienation may be little more than an expression of the malaise of the intellectual, who, rejected by and in turn rejecting the larger society, projects his own fear and despair onto the broader social screen.

Nor do I think that alienation is nothing more than a projection of the malaise of the intellectual.

The statement is often made that when Bultmann argues in this way, he `` overestimates the intellectual stumbling-block which myth is supposed to put in the way of accepting the Christian faith ''.

Miss Hardwick speaks of his `` superb gift for intellectual friendship '', and it is certainly a joy to see the intellectual life lived so free from either academic aridity or passionate dogmatism.

`` Roots '', the new play at the brand-new Mayfair Theater on 46th St. which has been made over from a night club, is about the intellectual and spiritual awakening of an English farm girl.

The statue is the " thing in itself ", and his slender face with the deep eyes express an intellectual eternity.

In discussion of the arts, a distinction is sometimes made between the Apollonian and Dionysian impulses where the former is concerned with imposing intellectual order and the latter with chaotic creativity.

The emphasis is on social history, and very long-term trends, often using quantification and paying special attention to geography and to the intellectual world view of common people, or " mentality " ( mentalité ).

St. Bonaventure ’ s “ Retracing the Arts to Theology ”, a primary example of this method, discusses the skills of the artisan as gifts given by God for the purpose of disclosing God to mankind, which purpose is achieved through four lights: the light of skill in mechanical arts which discloses the world of artifacts ; which light is guided by the light of sense perception which discloses the world of natural forms ; which light, consequently, is guided by the light of philosophy which discloses the world of intellectual truth ; finally, this light is guided by the light of divine wisdom which discloses the world of saving truth.

His Ethics defines `` possessions as the property of the community, of which the individual is sovereign steward.

The only real problem is to devise a plan whereby the owners of the above-water land can develop their property without the public losing its underwater land and the right to its development for public use and enjoyment.

The board is diminished in both respects, while it retains control over zoning, franchises, pier leases, sale, leasing and assignment of property, and other trusteeship functions.

The property sales assistance program is designed to assist small business concerns that may wish to buy property offered for sale by the Federal Government.

When suitable equipment is located by the SBA representative, the small business concern is contacted and advised on when, where, and how to bid on such property.

Each applicant is required to own or have sufficient interest in the property to be explored.

if the Government certifies that production may be possible from the property, the royalty obligation continues for the 10-year period usually specified in the contract or until the Government's contribution is repaid with interest.

This is being done both by the revaluation of real property and by seeking out forms of personal property hitherto neglected or ignored.

Intangible property is taxable wherever the owner has a place of abode the greater portion of the year.

Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.