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A Good Documentary Or Educational Film Is Not Raw Experience. The Material Has Passed The Mill Of Reason, It Has Been Sifted And Interpreted.

At One Of The Annual Conventions Of The American Society For Aesthetics Much Confusion Arose When The Society For Anesthetics Met At The Same Time In The Same Hotel.

The Dance, Just As The Performance Of The Actor, Is Kinesthetic Art, Art Of The Muscle Sense. The Awareness Of Tension And Relaxation Within His Own Body, The Sense Of Balance That Distinguishes The Proud Stability Of The Vertical From The Risky Adventures Of Thrusting And Falling--these Are The Tools Of The Dancer.

Orderliness By Itself Is Not Sufficient To Account For The Nature Of Organized Systems In General Or For Those Created By Man In Particular. Mere Orderliness Leads To Increasing Impoverishment And Finally To The Lowest Possible Level Of Structure, No Longer Clearly Distinguishable From Chaos, Which Is The Absence Of Order. A Counterprinciple Is Needed, To Which Orderliness Is Secondary. It Must Supply What Is To Be Ordered.

The Rehabilitation Of Order As A Universal Principle, However, Suggested At The Same Time That Orderliness By Itself Is Not Sufficient To Account For The Nature Of Organized Systems In General Or For Those Created By Man In Particular.