Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Troubled Prosperity. McCracken fully appreciates the fact that economic policy is made in the context of broader social problems. That realization was sharpened last year when he took a leave from Michigan to teach at three Southern Negro colleges. His social awareness is only one reason why Paul McCracken's appointment last week was widely applauded. For McCracken also brings to his new job a conviction that the U.S. economy, which has been going through a rather troubled prosperity, should be steered onto "a steadier course...
...Printing Office has its sleepers, however, and Of Specialists and Generalists quickly became the hottest item in Washington. A 71-page compilation of commentary from ancient and modern thinkers, it deals with the question of which is preferable: the specialist with expertise in one field, or the generalist, with broader, if shallower, wisdom. In an age where much rests on the judgment of public men, the question is of considerable interest. As it happens, most of the weight is on the generalist's side...
...work real change requires two things, according to Goodwin. First, we must recruit leadership whose idealism is convincing. A sense of restored national purpose, as in the Kennedy years, would provide the impetus for broader control of industrial and technological growth. (Idealism will be scarce so long as American foreign policy is blundering and violent...
...would have involved a swap of Xerox stock then worth $1.5 billion and created a hefty new conglomerate with assets of $4.5 billion. The agreement was based only on a handshake, but Xerox President C. Peter McColough cheerfully predicted that the merger would provide his company with "a much broader base than we now enjoy, enabling us to accelerate our plans in several fields...
...NCAA competition, untelevized): What is important in the bullfight is the killing of a living, breathing thing. It is final and absolute and there is no doubt that it has happened. In a football game we have a score to give us concreteness, and yet, looked at from a broader range, nothing gives concreteness to the situation of the team itself. I can see Yale with its 17 wins in a row or whatever floating in space with no soul and no meaning. For Harvard--for the matador then--the task is not only to win with great finality...