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...time when the cultural mission was clear, thinking was big, and budgets were gigantic. But then Meier, 57, is rather gloriously anachronistic -- and high-minded and portentous -- himself. While most of his peers have spent the past two decades feverishly inventing (or capitulating to) a sometimes gimcrack neo-neoclassicism, Meier has remained an unrepentant circa-1927 Corbusian -- modernism's last best heir. "I don't think you change your values every day or every time you do a new building," he says. "If you are worried about style or what is the trend of the moment, you are in trouble...
SUCH UNPRODUCTIVE WORK practices should surprise no one. Classical and neo-classical economists have always held that unions, because they restrict what workers can do and make it more difficult for management to fire inefficient workers, harm productivity...
...skinhead victory over the authorities: two weeks ago in the Saxon town of Hoyerswerda, 25 miles from the Polish border, the state government relocated 230 foreigners whose building had been subjected to a six-day barrage of stones and Molotov cocktails. The possibility of similar victories elsewhere has emboldened neo- Nazis and skinheads throughout Germany...
Many of Clinton's ideas, which include instituting a system of national service that would oblige youngsters to perform various community-based tasks in exchange for college assistance, are viewed by liberal Democrats as neo- Republican. So his task is difficult. Clinton's views may well appeal to voters in a general election, but they will surely be less attractive to the more liberal electorate that has controlled the Democratic Party's nominating process for 20 years...
...There is a kind of public repression now with the neo-conservatives that I think wouldn't have been allowed in those days. A kind of stupidity--this business of creationism, the invasion of the public forum with religious fundamentalism, the overt attempts to muzzle the press, the conglomeration of multi-nationals owning the television networks, the multi-nationals owning the government, the extreme military budget, you know, 300 dollars a year. In 1959, I wrote a little essay denouncing the military spending and the budget then was 52 million a year instead of 300 billion. And I thought that...