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)
