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...since we in America have been ever striving to establish "a more perfect union," since our whole system of government pretends to be based on one great burst of philosophizing in the middle of 1787, and since we have no sense of our past history by which to assess our progress, the Salesman has been most successful when pandering to our dreams and illusions. But, now, he's trying the truth. Superficially, the truth only concerns Vietnam. In actuality it embraces a whole mode of existence...
...letter proposes the following qualifications for the nominees: "The ideal candidate should possess a readiness to entertain new ideas and the ability realistically to assess their value. He should possess a willingness to share in group decisions and the firmness to withstand irresponsible criticism; and he should be deeply devoted to the welfare of this University...
...devise procedures for assessing the potential for internal war within national societies; to identify with increased degrees of confidence, these actions which a government might take to relieve conditions which are assessed as giving rise to a potential for internal war; and to assess the feasibility of prescribing the characteristies of a system for obtaining and using the essential information needed for doing the above to things...
...Whorf has pointed out, the structure of a given language determines, in part, how the society that speaks it views reality. If "substandard housing" makes rotting slums appear more livable or inevitable to some people, then their view of American cities has been distorted and their ability to assess the significance of poverty has been reduced. Perhaps the most chilling example of euphemism's destructive power took place in Hitler's Germany. The wholesale corruption of the language under Nazism, notes Critic George Steiner, is symbolized by the phrase endgültige Lösung (final solution), which...
...provision chiefly because some donors in the recent past have claimed exaggerated values for run-of-the-mill works. The museum men point out that such abuses have been sharply curtailed since the Internal Revenue Service established an advisory panel of experts 1½ years ago to help assess the fair market value of donated art. In 1968, the panel reviewed 500 donations and disallowed 25% of their claimed $20 million value. So far, not one donor has officially challenged their decisions...