Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...since the early decades of this century had there been such sweeping and lasting changes in the social order as in the 1960s. The 1930s was by comparison a period of merely institutional change--political power was to a degree redistributed, new public policies were adopted, but the essential value system was left intact. Crime rates in the 1930s, after a brief rise, soon levelled off, conventional moral standards were reasserted, and the traditional virtues of work and family remained strong...
...simplistic a principle as "no more Vietnams." But at a minimum, the 1980s should be a time when we re-evaluate the lessons of Vietnam and learn to distinguish the errors we made there from the general necessity that America participate in assuring some measure of international order. If we learned in the 1960s that having military force is no substitute for having an intelligent foreign policy, then perhaps in the 1980s we will have to accept the fact that a foreign policy without the willingness to use force in its support is no policy...
...that economic growth can be purchased by inflating the currency, incurring federal deficits, and taxing personal initiative. Though most of us in universities do not like to think about economic growth--we profess our disdain for "materialistic" and "philistine" matters--we must bear in mind how dependent our social order and political system are on maintaining economic abundance. There is little prospect of continued improvement in race relations, the alleviation of poverty, the provision of public services, or the maintenance of a tolerant and accomodating political process if the rate of economic growth remains flat for a prolonged period...
...raises the questions of whether people are turning to localism for its own sake or whether they are really responding to high quality art that was being overlooked in the major art centers. In order to determine that you simply have to go place by place and artist by artist and see what it looks like. I still tend to hold a somewhat conservative view that there's something to be said for the stimulating environment that a place like New York or Chicago provides...
...will see in the 80s that there is no solution within the present institutional order. I predict wage and price controls on a permanent basis in the 80s. The conservatives who argue you can't have price controls without dislocations are right. We'll have controls, and that's where planning comes in. Planning without controls. Because of problems generated by capitalism, these controls will necessitate more controls and more planning...