Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...convention night cheered wildly and sincerely for Barry Goldwater could the next day embrace platform and a candidate that will accomplish as little of what Goldwater really wants as will the Democrats. The embrace is indeed brief and for most observers came away from the Chicago convention with a wrong impression that Goldwater, and Eisenhower or Nixon, was the centimental hero of the Republican (I hesitate to call them...
...least, there seems to be much wrong with Goldwater's argument. Its additional difficulty is that it just won't sell. First, it is too formalistic: the Constitution does not impress the average voter half as much as constructive action. Second, it is too far removed from reality: Goldwater never tells us how various services are to be performed once the Federal government gets its "unconstitutional" nose out. If I were a private individual with several million dollars, what on earth could I do about, for instance, urban renewal, that would not be better done if I turned my money...
...many have said, Galbraith is--wonder of wonders--an economist who can write the English language; he is also, particularly in this collection, more a moralist than a technical economist. His moral point, expressed in many different contexts, is that something is wrong with our society when there are so many slums, so much unemployment, such shortages in educational facilities, housing, and other public goods--all in the face of unprecedented upper and middle class consumer prosperity...
...sure that abuse or neglect, either public or private, will be given the notoriety that is needed. In the time of Coolidge and Hoover, the Federal Executive, business and the press were united. These are the times in our democracy when all looks peaceful and much goes wrong...
...countries in the stage of transition to industrialization have this much in common: an economy based about 75 per cent on agriculture, and hence, problems of altering traditional methods of farming and of land tenure; geophysical difficulties like swamps and jungles; labor shortages and unemployment in the wrong places; high illiteracy rates; rapidly expanding populations, the result of the overwhelming influx of technology that has reduced rates by more than half, lack of technological knowledge; lack of political experience; lack of capital...