Word: diffusionism
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Connally may well be in charge of the negotiations for reform all the way through. He complained last week that responsibility for the nation's foreign economic policy is scattered throughout many Government bodies, and he is obviously seeking to gather all the decision-making power into his Treasury...
By coincidence, while the money deal was being made at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, another conference was held at the Brookings Institution, half a mile away. There a group of twelve top economists -including Britain's Sir Alec Cairncross, Japan's Saburo Okita, and the U.S.'...
Archaeologists were delighted with the new technique, which brought Libby a Nobel Prize. By using it to date artifacts of questionable vintage, archaeologists found that it lent fresh support to one of their pet theories-that there was a gradual diffusion of culture from the advanced Near East to barbarian...
Blocks and Dabs. Art needs stamina to survive that kind of diffusion. Mondrian survived triumphantly, though at some cost. The characteristics of industrial reproduction-flatness, harshness, gloss and repetition-became wrongly linked to his work. The idea that Mondrian was a kind of machine painter, all sensuousness barred, is one...
The problem of My Lai, to be sure, is not the same as the dilemma that confronts men at every level in bureaucracies public and private. "The ultimate evil is the result of carefully segmented acts; the structure itself guarantees an evasion by everyone of responsibility for the full moral...