Word: interested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gottingen University, as a professor of mathematics and astronomy. Only Kant stayed at home longer than Lichtenberg; both men being somewhat alike in their appreciation of the virtues of the middle-class life. Lichtenberg, however, was no timid professor. One of the most appealing things about him is his interest and enthusiasm over the minor occurrences in his life. A simple rain storm was as apt to inspire him to comment as his "God, who winds our sundials." "It rained so hard the pigs got clean and the people dirty." Or in a line which interested...
After years of an English acceptance of the Germans as a darkly brooding people, this Lichtenberg collection comes as an enlightening influence. Let this fact be no determining factor, however, in one's interest in Lichtenberg. Though writing during the Enlightenment, he is definitely oriented towards the modern world. What Lichtenberg has to say about his own day is quite applicable to our own: "Man is so perfectible and corruptible that he can become a madman through sheer intellect...
Whole Economy of Interest...
...Russians have also manifested interest in input-output analysis, and are now training people to perform the necessary operations. Leontief, who visited his native Russia briefly last spring, believes that although they are "having a hard time justifying the use of an analytical tool developed by a capitalist," the Russians will resort to it soon. Certain revisions have to be made in U.S.S.R. statistical methods in order to facilitate use of the analysis, Leontief added...
...spite of the adoption of input-output analysis by 35 interested foreign countries, the United States government has completely neglected the system in recent years. The last table devised for the U. S. economy was the 450-category chart made up in 1947. Interest at that time was occasioned by a wish to know the impact throughout the economy of an expansion of government spending on arms--the extent to which other types of production would have to contact, and the "bottle necks" that might arise...