Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trustbusters are being guided by the "old American ideology." In his new book, The New American Ideology (Knopf; $12.50), Lodge declared passe the old 17th and 18th century business and political values of competition, property rights, limited government and rugged individualism-philosophical products mainly of John Locke and Adam Smith. What is emerging, he believes, is a new set of ideas that business executives and Government planners may not routinely articulate but that nevertheless are already partly in place. Some tenets of Lodge's "new ideology...
POWERS OF MIND by ADAM SMITH 418 pages. Random House...
...second is baked in its own apocryphal jacket: Isaac Newton got his deep insight into gravity when struck by a falling fruit. Result: a new brand of physics that relocated us even farther from the godhead-and a reverse anthropomorphism that saw the human body as a machine. Today Adam Smith implies the West has an urge to work its way back, past technology, past sin itself...
Smith's publishing instincts are like those of a surfer who knows just when to catch the curl of the wave. For the New Purity is upon us-or at least upon the affluent who enroll in TM classes, biofeedback training, Esalen body rubs and Zen tennis lessons. Adam Smith has had a crack at all of these and more...
...crossed the pubic-hair Rubicon three years ago, but only after goading by Bob Guccione, whose Penthouse first appeared in 1969 full of gauzy nudes with hirsute private parts. Since then, the two antagonists, as well as such panting competitors as Gallery, Genesis, Dude, Club, Game, Cavalier, Adam and Hustler, have been leaving less and less to the imagination. Playboy has expanded its Playmate of the Month spread from two or three pages to as many as nine. Penthouse routinely features male-female and female-female couples. Hefner's Oui (circ. 1.3 million), which set out three years...