By FRANK BRUNI
The Catholic leader's tone and words are a counterpoint to the arrogance
and self-aggrandizement that define so much of modern life.
First US edition cover
The novel's title is a reference to the musical technique of counterpoint, and the story is constructed after the fashion of a work of music. Instead of a single central plot, there are a number of interlinked storylines and recurring themes. Many of the characters are based on real people, most of whom Huxley knew personally.
In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in contour and rhythm and are harmonically interdependent. It has been most commonly identified in classical music, developing strongly during the Renaissance and in much of the common practice period, especially in Baroque music. The term originates from the Latin punctus contra punctum meaning "point against point".
講"發揮"，可參考胡適之先生在1936年版的《胡適留學日記‧自序》中說的：
我從自己經驗裏得到一個道理，曾用英文寫出來：
Expression is the most effective means of approximating impression.譯成中國話就是：
要使你所得印象變成你自己的，最有效的法子是記錄或表現成文章。......你自己必須把這題目研究清楚，然後使用自己的話把它發揮出來，成為一篇有條理的演講。你經過這一番「表現」或「發揮」expression之後，那些空泛的印象變著實了，.......
這種方式是求知識學問的一種幫助，也是思想的一種幫助。它的方式有多種，讀書作提要
，札記，寫信，談話，演說，作文，都有這種作用。札記是為自己的了解的；談話，討論，寫信，是求一個朋友的了解的；演說，作文，是求一群人的了解的，這都是「發揮」，都有幫助自己了解的功用。
......我寫這一大段話，是要我的讀者明白我為什麼在百忙的學生生活裏那樣起勁寫札記。......
counterpoint
1 [U] [C] 《音楽》対位法（によって作られた楽曲）.
2 [U] 《音楽》＝syncopation.
━━**bush fire?Satirical threads sweeping across the Internet can often seem like brush fires ?whose origins are lost in the conflagration. But behind every outbreak are individuals probing the limits of self-expression, flirting, often perilously, with the blurry line between the permissible and the punishable. Over the past several months I followed two individuals — the animator Pi San and the blogger Wen Yunchao — in an effort to understand the dynamics of “mischievous mockery” and the increasingly serious game of cat-and-mouse taking place along China’s digital front lines.
Pi San and Wen are perfect counterpoints — a northerner and a southerner who approach egao from different angles. One specializes in visual images, the other mainly in words. Pi San shudders at being considered an activist; he sees satire as an artistic way to vent personal frustration. Wen wears the activist label proudly; he views humor as a “weapon of the weak” to mobilize civil society. As the government crackdown intensified, each man was forced to adjust his calculations of danger and opportunity: How far could they go before they crossed the invisible line?
Many of the images he has discovered on his way through life have joined the masterpieces of the past as points of reference and points of departure.
A new campaign for 3M's Post-it notes focuses on unexpected ways to use them.
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Spots for Post-it notes present them as a vehicle for self-expression by depicting the unusual and unexpected ways that consumers use the notes.
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Deschooling Society (1971) is a critical discourse on education as practised in modern economies. It is a book that brought Ivan Illich to public attention. Full of detail on programs and concerns, the book gives examples of the ineffectual nature of institutionalized education. Illich posited self-directed education, supported by intentional social relations in fluid informal arrangements:
Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand the pedagogue's responsibility until it engulfs his pupils' lifetimes will deliver universal education. The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. We hope to contribute concepts needed by those who conduct such counterfoil research on education--and also to those who seek alternatives to other established service industries.[1]
Definition of counterfoil
noun
British
the part of a cheque, receipt, ticket, or other document that is torn off and kept as a record by the person issuing it.
point of reference
point of departure
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