Word: discardable
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...reworking society as they are in their ideas for keeping the architecture--if they had had the courage to propose consciousness-raising exercises on not only the hidden artistic aspects of everyday buildings, but on the hidden economic and political aspects of a society that lead it to discard these buildings as non-profitable and therefore valueless--then America's Forgotten Architecture would have been a revolutionary manifesto. The book is now a record of fights won, but offers little challenge to future duels. Too bad. It could have been a contender...
Clearly the quickest way to cut through the interwoven problems is to discard the rigid traditions. Though the White Paper recognizes that solution, its authors correctly fear that the old traditions are far too deeply entrenched to be changed without tremendous dislocations in Japanese society. Big corporations have avoided the issue so far by choosing an alternative answer: to cut the number of new workers hired while keeping productivity per worker high with more automation in factories. This year, for example, the giant Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. will take on only 700 new workers to replace...
...little to choose ideologically between the two: both suit their conservative instincts just fine. Surprisingly few are holding out in hope of a job or other favor. A number miss in Ford the image of a decisive leader that they perceive in Reagan, and yet they are reluctant to discard an incumbent who they believe has performed passably well in difficult circumstances...
...belief. To Nietzsche, humanity's theological license had expired, and man could either plunge into nihilism or freedom. This now classical alienation from faith became Heidegger's concern. In his seminal work, Being and Time, he set out to investigate the nature of existence. He tried to discard the Cartesian dualism of mind and matter. Heidegger's man is "thrown" into the void. Confronted by dread, this "authentic person" lives in the full awareness of his extinction; between sentience and death he can find freedom and purpose...
...over his grandmother for Nixon. But he admits that he might as well have made the remark. His loyalty to Nixon was total. Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman once warned him: "Richard Nixon will use anybody. Remember that. When he doesn't need you, he'll discard you." But Colson thought he was somehow exempt from this treatment...