Word: processing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laugh; with his politician's adeptness at choosing which questions to answer, dodge or bull through; with his dictator's unpredictable pace changes from toothy grins to sudden shouts; with his Marxist's igth century-model sureness that capitalism, like feudalism, was doomed by a simple process of history-it was Khrushchev who was at all times the embodiment of the elemental challenge. With an expansive smile he proclaimed to the U.S.: "You wanted to see what kind of man Khrushchev is! Well, here...
...financing in the inflationary short end. Between now and Jan. 1, the Treasury has to refinance almost $12 billion in old debt and borrow $7 billion in new cash. So much money borrowed in the short end has created a strong pressure to shove all interest rates higher. The process is already operating. Last week, as the 91-day bill rate went up to nearly 4.2% from 3.979% on the sale a week before, it easily jumped over the new 4% discount rate set by the Federal Reserve to stop banks from taking advantage of the lower discount rate...
...more inept. For the decisions that are coming out of undergraduate speculation about religion do not represent a return to the faith in which they or their forefathers were raised, but rather a realization that some answer must be made to the problems raised by religious thinking. In this process aspects of one's former religion are rejected or retained, and aspects of other religions are unabashedly borrowed. Thus, a student who is called a Protestant will admit he is a Protestant but--,and he may well proceed to say that he rejects the doctrines of grace, immortality...
...world about him with the new yard-stick of values presented to him by the University; what is most novel, and disturbing, is that he must re-measure himself. If the Jewish student has not gained firmly established roots, if he has not created a self-image, the process can be disconcerting...
...some fixed omnipotent Will, how can man be awakened to the enormous task that has therefore devolved upon him of infusing both these things with his own will, of becoming his own Law-Giver and Providence, bearing absolute freedom and responsibility for all that occurs? or is the whole process of human life now to be surrendered to blind chance and accident, habit, stupidity, and chaos?--or worse still, allowed to lapse into the control of elites with stunted souls who can count on the despairing resignation of everyone else to manipulate or intimidate the species into a cheerful, comfortable...