Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always scotched this sunny Stevenson couplet. To such economists as Thomas Robert Malthus and John Stuart Mill in the 19th Century and John Maynard Keynes in the 20th, the world did not seem so full. Any economic system, said the Mill school, would either become static or it would fail to provide for its own. Lesser Cassandras, including New Dealers, have foretold the depletion of the world's oil and coal reserves, the exhaustion of soils, have pronounced the U.S. economy to be "mature," i.e., incapable of further expansion. Most of these experts offered some laws whereby, they held...
...were not worried about the investment. The resale value of Neutra houses has been demonstrated time & again. Real-estate agents never fail to insert the words "Neutra House" when they advertise one for sale. Says Neutra: "I consider myself literally conservative, dependable over the amortization period...
...other of two emphatic and talkative echelons. First are "the purists," who believe that in these tough times the best hope for mankind is for idealists to build "oases" of humaneness and brotherly love. Stringing along with them, largely out of spiteful hope of seeing the experiment fail, are "the realists," cynical ex-Commies who still retain ("from their Leninist days") the smug and fanciful notion that they are a revolutionary elite. Steeped in a Marx-cum-Freud conviction that no man can "resist history, environment, class structure, psychic conditioning," the realists take for granted that all oases which spring...
...sincere description of how he became a Communist there was revealed the pitiful effects of Communist tactics and dialectics on a man of integrity and idealism ... No humane man could possibly fail to understand how Mr. Davis grew bitter and resentful, but to join the Communists as an agency for the reform of our social wrongs reveals the trap into which otherwise honorable men too often fall...
...resolution marks the high-water mark (to date) of the movement founded 15 years ago by that timeless gadfly of world government, Clarence Streit. He and his associates think that treaties and arms programs and economic-assistance plans are all doomed to fail unless free nations limit their sovereignty and enter a union similar to that created by the U.S. Constitution...