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Even so, a number of economists do not dismiss out of hand the possibility of a depression. Those who use the term define it, quite imprecisely, as a prolonged period, perhaps two or three years, during which output and incomes shrink and business bankruptcies and unemployment rise to heights not seen since before World War II. Says Alan Greenspan, who was chief economic adviser to President Gerald Ford: "This scenario still has a low probability, but it should no longer be put into the bizarre or kooky category...
CYNICS COULD DISMISS a hefty proportion of literary criticism and philosophy as the creative artist's struggle--in vain, of course--to justify his adherence to the arts over the pressing issues of politics. The attempt to legitimize art, in a world increasingly skewed towards the political, the economic and the scientific, has assumed some strange configurations. There is the essentially Marxist-inspired vision of poetry as the picture of life after the Revolution; the poet, as Party servant, illustrates prophecies, bringing the dreamers' vision alive for the toiling workers. The same impulse can be detected in the Emersonian vision...
...more I thought about my Penn Station encounter, the more I had to dismiss the lock-em-up, cut-their-balls-off solutions so tempting during those first moments of rage. My assailant was a smoothie, not a thug. That was plain from the way he discreetly sidled up to me to show his gun, from his craftiness in taking only those items that could not incriminate him (no cards, just cash), and from his use of icy threats rather than force. No Hobbesian brute this--he seemed instead a rational, calculating man acting out of self-interest, not instinct...
...serious practitioners of the art of insult, the British probably dismiss Haig's testy comment on Carrington as hardly in the same world class as the invective of Lloyd George, who said that Winston Churchill would "make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises"; of World War Fs Field Marshal Haig that he "was brilliant to the top of his army boots"; of Lord Derby that he was "like a cushion who always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him." Devastating ad libs and insults...
...proposals are "something of a red herring," Dallas Marin president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators told the lobbyists. He counseled that students counter any suggestion of resorting the GSLs in "exchange" for the Pell grants by "telling them, 'We absolutely dismiss this; now let's look at the rest of your bad proposals...