Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For liberals as well as conservatives, the events of April exposed a disturbing irrationality. But where liberals differ from conservatives is their conviction that the Faculty and administration behaved as badly as the students. "What was most striking was the ease with which academics, who are supposed to be rational...
If Pipes's "enchanted world" dissolved in the heat of the strike and its aftermath, those faculty members who sought such a world did not disappear with it. Some former members of the caucus have retired; others have died. But ten years later, the majority continue to teach, no longer...
The brooding rock exerts a primitive magnetic force on some of the girls. Four, led by the lovely Miranda (Anne Lambert), leave the group to explore it more closely. One, chubby and asexual, turns back, but the other three press on. Two of them (along with a teacher answering some...
From the seminary, which he leaves for reasons of "Eros generally, not Eros specifically," Wills slings himself into Bill Buckley's energetic orbit of lively conversation, sailboats and sports cars whose "constant whirrings down, fussy tuggings, and resumed flight seemed a nuisance rather than a luxury." In a holding...
What the U.S. failed to recognize, Galbraith says, is the true nature of the "equilibrium of poverty." He claimed that in the U.S., income can be increased simply by a little macroeconomic maneuvering, and most of the time each individual can boost his own economic status if he so wishes...