Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...culmination of Hirsch's arguments is an overall critique of Adam Smith's fervent belief that his hidden hand and enlightened self-interest could be an effective social organizing device. The principle thing people desire--status--is intrinsically scarce. The only way to circumvent these limitations is to overhaul social mores and values--to reject Adam Smith and create new motivational forces in society. Unfortunately, Hirsch, like too many other polemicists, is better at describing the nature of the problem than at posing viable ways to solve...
...there anything wrong with such goodhearted greed, openly pursued? Some argue in Billy's favor that he never sought his celebrity (not quite true), but is now obeying Adam Smith's "invisible hand" by selling the public what it wants for as long as it will pay. Tourist hordes made Billy give up his house in Plains, besieged him in his office and drove him from his beloved filling station; after such indignities, why shouldn't he become undignified himself, and get well paid for it? No one imagines for a second that Billy (whose political hero...
Despite the somewhat submerged running conditions, the Dartmouth team managed to shine. Woodsman top gun Dean Stevens led in the troops, marking time near the finish line so teammates Sean Sioban, Adam Switchenko, and Arthur Jensen could catch up with him. all for the greater glory of the Big Green...
...Adam Gaffin and Daniel Medeiros were tired of feeling left out, so the Brandeis freshmen founded the Brandeis United Lefthanders Association...
...horny faun who spends his afternoon chasing-and being rejected by-nubile nudes; a serpent whose proffered apple is spurned by Adam and Eve and who makes the mistake of swallowing it himself, only to be driven to despair by modern society; a spilled drop of Coke that becomes the primal seed for an army of fantastic monsters; a tidy bee whose neat little world is crushed by the love thrashings of a monstrous (to her eyes) human couple...