Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White and Rehnquist eventually wound up in lonely dissent on the court, they were soon joined by a clamor of antiabortionists across the country. New York's Terence Cardinal Cooke called the opinion "a tragic utilitarian judgment" and added that "judicial decisions are not necessarily sound moral decisions." James Lenehan, chairman of a Connecticut Right to Life committee, wondered "how the Supreme Court can at one time rule against capital punishment and then allow the wholesale slaughter of unborn children." Georgia's Right to Life chairman, Joe Bowman, was reminded "of the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which said...
...workingman, he steered his own election bill through Parliament. The liberalism of 19th century England was in many respects the exact opposite of 20th century American liberalism; it was essentially laissez-faire. But both Disraeli and Nixon rejected the assumptions of liberalism, then and now: a faith in utilitarian reform, an easy optimism, a hankering for change. Said Disraeli: "In a progressive country change is constant; and the great question is not whether you should resist change, but whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, the customs, the laws and the traditions of a people...
...importance, believes Professor James J. Flink of the University of California at Irvine, involves the automobile. Said he at last week's meeting of the American Historical Association in Manhattan: "The era of uncritical mass accommodation to the motorcar has ended; for most Americans, automobility has become simply utilitarian and lost its quasi-religious connotations; most important, the automobile and the automobile industry no longer call the tune and set the tempo of American life." One major reason for this shift in attitudes, Flink thinks, is young Americans' sweeping indictment of the car for contributing to "environmental pollution...
...addition, in the western world, there is "a disgusting farrago of Judeo-Christian religiosity, scientistic progressism, belief in the 'natural' rights of man, and utilitarian pragmatism." All these notions are unacceptable in the light of Monod's revelations. There can be no reliance on an "animist" concept of a covenant between man and nature...
...amply filling-that attracted the attention of Hollywood Editor William Wilkerson in Hollywood's Top Hat Malt Shop 35 years ago. "How would you like to be in pictures?" he asked Julia Jean. Within a year she had been transformed into Sweater Girl Lana Turner, and the lowly, utilitarian sweater had been established as a basic part of the American female's wardrobe...