Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...books cut across the social sciences, picking a method of treatment out of anthropology and using it to handle a political exposition. He can mingle ideas from psychoanalysis and economics and enrich the result with literary references from Tolstoy, Samuel Butler, Virginia Woolf, Castiglione, Jules Verne, Franz Kafka, St. Augustine, Nietzsche, Kathleen Winsor, E. M. Forster, Lionel Trilling, Cervantes, Jack London and James Joyce. His books are relatively free of academic jargon, because there is no special lingo that the economists, sociologists and anthropologists have in common; anybody who wants to talk to all of them has to use English...
...Blood. Then the committee turned to the critical problem of recruitment. The Foreign Service has been retarded, said the Wriston group, "by a persistent belief that promotion from the bottom is the only true incentive," although private business has found that "late starters of high ability often enrich the base and bring fresh incentive into the jaded middle years...
...power shovels and 18-ton bulldozers are as much a source of wonder as the iron horse was to the Indians a century ago. In these countries, M-K has caused roses to grow in deserts, electric power and wealth to flow from forbidding mountain streams, new skills to enrich poverty-stricken natives. In all his endeavors, Harry Morrison does not forget that he is a hardheaded American businessman working to make a profit. But that is not his only objective...
...Which he left because it "continuously yielded to communist pressure"), on the Hiss case ("I accept Chambers' basic account of events"), or on Henry Wallace (The Communists have taken a lot of credulous men for a ride. Wallace seemed anxious to step on the accelerater himself") did not greatly enrich the book, Much of the autobiography includes this interesting rambling of a mind that is sharp, and thrilled to be free...
...when patronage overshadowed honest qualification as basis for a municipal appointment, the city and the Cambridge Civic Association face another election. To some extent the issue is relatively clear cut, the loss of a CCA majority will bring back a lax government, dominated by self interest and designed to enrich a politically victorious few. But even the CCA has proposed some poor candidates, and voters should not blindly check its entire list of candidates...