Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second point of consensus among the senior faculty is that Marxian economics sheds little light on what they define as the exhaustive content of their discipline: the development of a "science" of resource allocation which will serve as an aid to those who have the power over resources. There can be no doubt that our definition of economics is substantially different. As might be anticipated from my account of our struggle against the hierarchical structure of decision making in the Economics Department, our objective is not to advise or serve those with power, but to develop an economic analysis which...
...example, have been paid by the Government to irrigate formerly unusable land that the very next year was placed in a soil conservation program and thus, for still a further price, was held out of production. Subsidies to milk producers are paid on the basis of the butterfat content in their cows' milk, which naturally has encouraged dairy farmers to produce, through the breeding and feeding of cattle, ever richer milk. Consumer tastes, of course, have gone precisely the other way -to large quantities of fat-free milk...
...when asked last Saturday afternoon at a closed panel discussion which gained nothing by being closed, what his criteria were for inclusion of particular individuals and points of view, Ophuls replied, "First, narrative coherence, second emotional appeal, and third, and only third, political content." When asked next, "Why then do you make films about such highly political situations," Ophuls answered honestly, "Accident"--and you could hear the audience gasp...
...presumed that familiarity with the content of introductory courses in these sciences is an aid in the pursuit of medical school studies, but we question their direct value in producing competent practicing physicians. And while we are led to believe that the education offered in this nation's medical schools continues to be the best in the world, we must also question the value of some of the four-year courses of study for producing capable physicians...
Ophuls apparently saw that and yet he seems merely content to state the immediacy, rather than give us some idea of what it is about. That is what is disturbing about the omission of serious interviews with actual Provisional IRA and UDA volunteers. Why do these people fight? Do they have the support of their communities? Are they noble knights of a cause or are they merely hoods, and do their neighbors perceive them as such? These are important questions and Ophuls does not address them. He only touches on them in a confused and inconclusive discussion with a Catholic...