Word: impracticall
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Along with Cocteau, the avant-garde French writer and film director whose aphorism he quotes frequently these days, Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent may be fou like a fox. After years of beguiling women into austerely tailored pantsuits, now, in this cool age of less is more and casual...
Morality, we are told, is much too simplistic, much too impractical, and much too difficult. For it means making decisions based on the recognition of a right and a wrong. It requires us to control our passions and practice virtues. Morality urges us not to forsake our responsibilities to God...
The war grinds on despite all efforts to stop it. The latest proposal was in some ways the most impractical: before flying back to Paris from a U.S. visit, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing offered to airlift French troops to act as a peace-keeping force. The proposal...
Affirmative action quotas are also counterproductive and impractical. One can imagine, for example, the feelings of an applicant rejected by an employer or school, while others are being accepted, not because of their superior qualifications (they may often have inferior qualifications), but because they belong to the right race or...
Reaching agreement will not be easy. Meeting last February in Manila, the organization of LDCS known as the Group of 77 (it has expanded to 110 countries) drew up 17 demands that, if adopted, would thoroughly reorganize the workings of international trade. Some of the proposals are patently impractical, and...