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Word: answer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work of a once very popular American female portraitist, a gifted conservative with a relaxed, unemphatic and slightly languid style-but not until then. And with more abstract art, division by gender becomes meaningless. What sex is Alice Trumbull Mason's painting L'Hasard (1948)? One might answer: platonic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Rediscovered--Women Painters | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Schumacher's answer to the philosophy of positivism--which says that only through the methods of the natural sciences can valid knowledge be obtained, and that "no knowledge is genuine unless based on generally observable facts"--is that economics is not a science. It is not free of an underlying ideology or philosophy. What's more, it should not try to be. Neoclassical economists--Samuelson and his colleagues--have gone astray, writes Schumacher, surreptitiously sneaking value judgments into their theoretical toolkits, and by choosing the wrong values...

Author: By Adam W. Glass, | Title: Economics As If People Mattered | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Kenneth B. Krohn asked the panel of three appeals court judges to declare Harvard a public institution-a status that would oblige the Law School to uphold his 14th amendment rights-in order to force Harvard to answer his charges...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Rejected Law Applicant Appeals Dismissed Suit | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

MOST HONEST FELLA: Dustin Hoffman, at the aforementioned blast. Asked why his Marathon Man costar, Laurence Olivier, was absent, Dusty gave the short answer, "He has too much class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Year's Most | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...Tease. Here's Life markets Jesus the way others might introduce a new brand of soda pop to a city. I FOUND IT! tease the TV and newspaper ads, billboards, buttons, bumper stickers. Found what? The ads offer a telephone number that will provide the answer: Jesus. In Chicago, church members manned 100 telephones 15 hours a day. Said one local convert, Banker William McLaren: "I had an unbelievable feeling. I cried for six hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tomorrow the World' | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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