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...city previously left out of the arts picture. The organization was formed in 1981 by the City Council in order to pull together in an organized fashion a panoply of grass roots arts groups that had been doing much the same thing, but only in an ad hoc fashion...
Past Policies to manufacturers have been "percentile and hoc,"Caton said, citing measure to bail out the floundering Chrysler Corporation. "That approach is like sticking Bandai's on a lackey life boat," he said...
Under current procedures, formal harassment complaints are investigated by an administrator and submitted to the Dean of the Faculty for a final decision. Cases involving two professors may also be reviewed by an ad hoc Faculty committee...
...organic center does not exist, what is to be done? The American answer seems to be: build a synthetic one. The can-do country (its creations include synthetic rubber, artificial flavors and plastic hearts) has come up with a substitute: ad hoc centrism. The mechanism is government-by-commission, and unlike the "commission on the future" of years past, today's commission is not meaningless, temporary employment for eminent and idle statesmen. It is an essential political instrument for improvising a center. And it is the political story...
...doubt, ad hoc centrism is better than none. But it is at best a temporary and incomplete solution to a structural flaw in American politics. In the meantime, until it is corrected, until the liberal internationalist tradition can rebuild itself into a political force, we can look forward to more oscillatory democracy and, to dampen its abrupt left-right swings, more commissions...