Word: aspens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's no job I have really aspired to that I haven't had," reflected Elder Statesman John McCloy last week. The occasion was a dinner sponsored by the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. McCloy, 82, who has served as Assistant Secretary of War (during World War II), president of the World Bank, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, and adviser to seven Presidents, received the institute's third Statesman-Humanist Award-which puts him in good company. The first two winners: Jean Monnet, architect of Europe's Common Market, and former German Chancellor and Nobel Peace...
Concord sales, unlike those of AMC's other models like the Gremlin and Matador, have in fact started fast. But unfortunately for the company, Concord is not all that different; it faces stiff competition from the Ford Fairmont, Chrysler's Dodge Aspen and General Motors' Chevy Nova. And Meyers' optimism reminds skeptical Detroiters of the company's early exuberance about the glassy Pacer, whose sales in 1975, the year of introduction, really did hit 100,000?and then almost stopped. Whether Concord can keep up its initial success will go far to determine if Meyers remains the head...
...next two years, as he writes, he will keep his office on Wasinngton's K Street. In the fall he will have another office up in New York City in the Aspen Institute. He will divide his tune between the two places, riding to the Washington airports in his new blue Mercedes, flying often in the small jets of friends like Nelson Rockefeller...
...books, progenitor of the Great Books of the Western World and of the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, was relishing another intellectual free-for-all. His opponents were British Philosophers Anthony Quinton and Maurice Cranston, who had been invited to debate Adler on his own turf-the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Moderated by Bill Moyers and billed as a medieval-style "public disputation" on the future of democracy, the affair celebrated the 25th anniversary of Adler's Chicago-based Institute for Philosophical Research...
...sense, his critics were right, for Adler still describes himself as an Aristotelian. (When he first started his Aspen programs for executives, Adler and a group actually donned robes to get into the spirit of academe.) He relishes dismissing most of philosophy since Thomas Aquinas as being snarled with pseudo problems. Modern philosophy, claims Adler, got off to "a very bad start" when Descartes and Locke committed the "besetting sin of modern thought": they ignored Aristotle...