Word: diversionism
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Third, you must guarantee full employment. You have to provide income maintenance for those who cannot earn an income. You need to make work programs, diversion of the war economy into the civilian economy. We should break the control of the unions over the skilled trades. It's ridiculous that...
God has his prophets and saints, and art has its Pluches-aesthetic Jesuits, Leathernecks of creativity, defenders of aristocratic art-soul against bourgeois art-stomach, men of passion and appetite, of sublime ups and leaden downs. Pluche is a talented, unfashionable, moderately successful painter who is down-or, in Jean...
> As a campus issue, environmental degradation has attracted countless student radicals. Now the honeymoon may be over. At the University of Michigan teach-in last week, dissident blacks insisted that ecology is a mere diversion from more pressing issues. "There are 50 bills in the legislature on environmental problems," said...
THROUGHOUT this process the distorted image of the suffragette, educated girl probably takes her "emancipation" as being beyond question, not even worth stating or discussing. Men will readily accept her as different, an exception, an interesting diversion. There might be a hint of strain over her sexuality, a flicker of...
But Thomas R. Gerety, a first-year Law student and one of those who protested last week's faculty meetings, called the six meetings "a bogus diversion."