Word: reductionisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But the true spur to efficiency is not fear?either of unemployment or a customer's wrath; it is rather a positive ideal. And that ideal is failing in the affluent urban society of the present time. "People are no longer turned on by the Protestant Ethic," says Abraham Zaleznik...
Twelve of the 13 Black Panthers accused of plotting to blow up New York City police stations and department stores remain in jail. Since April, they have been unable to raise money for their high bail, which ranges from $50,000 to $100,000 each. Last week they underlined their...
When Daria in total disgust imagines the house repeatedly exploding, the scene is justified and perhaps inevitable. Having broken down the connections between people and objects sharing a common environment, Antonioni literally breaks down the organic structure of the objects themselves, and of the frames that contain them. The house...
THEORETICAL syntheses are fine in themselves-we need a lot more synthesis, and a lot less reduction-but if they have no relation to real situations, they can be worse than useless. Jones himself complains of the disparity between the training and experience of the teacher and that of the...
Originally, a mere few hundred scattered U.S. communities had fluorides in their water supplies, deposited by nature in the soils through which the waters flow. The value of man's imitating nature was soon apparent in the Grand Rapids experiment, which showed a dramatic reduction in the number of...