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...rate: about 3%). But the plan is not scheduled to get under way until next March. Like so many other nations, Turkey seems to think that association with the thriving Common Market, for which it has applied, will solve its economic troubles. Says Gursel: "Membership in NATO is meaningless without membership in the Common Market...
...approached on its own terms. As Commager remarks: "The ideas work not merely 'with' but 'in' and 'through' Horace's specific language. If we change any element of his language a different idea remains--or no idea at all. To speak of a lyric poet's 'message' is meaningless, except in terms of the forms in which he creates...
...them to value only what can be put to use. Americans no longer appreciate a thing in itself. They are immersed in abstractions. Kerr insists, and have lost touch with life in the raw. Modern abstract art mirrors abstract lives; so does the avant-garde theater with its often meaningless chatter. Even business has become abstract. By a mere "shuffling" of papers, a financier can buy the Empire State Building without going near it. "Does he feel on solid ground, clothed in steel and concrete that have become part of himself?" asks Kerr, "or has he simply brushed wings with...
...paper, the Soviet Union has a model constitution, guaranteeing all citizens freedom of speech and assembly, a free press, and equality under the law. In fact, as intended by Joseph Stalin, who introduced the constitution at the height of his reign of terror in 1936, it is a meaningless document because the Kremlin can and does ignore it at will...
...some concern with this trend. Says Carlfred B. Broderick, associate professor of family relationships at Pennsylvania State University, and one of the nation's top authorities on children: "Many parents appear to operate under the mistaken theory that sex starts at puberty. They assume that early kissing is meaningless. But pre-teen dating starts the youngster earlier on the road to progressive intimacy. By the time these children have reached their teens, they have pretty well covered the field, and are ready for nothing less than marriage...