Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After an egalitarian-minded Briton once took some Indian friends swimming at a British planters' club in Bihar State, his fellow members ordered the pool drained and refilled...
...kind. Elisabeth Allison, assistant professor of Economics, has instituted in several Fc 10 sections a self-pacing program which could have especially unusual implications. Not only is her program a unique attempt to escape the lecture rehash formal in the social sciences but it has resulted in a more egalitarian system of teaching Section leaders seem to be spending more time now with students having difficulty with economics and less with students better able to advance in the subject on their own. A number of interdisciplinary House courses have also been set up through the fund, and proposals for future...
Quotas? The word does indeed have a sinister, anti-egalitarian ring. Republicans clearly were sounding it to counter the claims of Democrats that their party reforms, inspired largely by Nominee George McGovern, had led to one of the most open and representative national political conventions in U.S. history. The new rules had "encouraged" state delegations to include members of minority groups, young people and women "in reasonable relationship to the group's presence in the population of the state." The Republicans, as well as a good many longtime Democrats excluded in the reform process, considered that political representation...
...fatal weaknesses. Similarly, men who called Luce a fascist in the 1930s could not face the fact of Stalin's purges. Today liberals regard the American labor movement as warmongering, reactionary and materialist; 40 years ago, they assumed that the rise of strong unions would make egalitarian America awake and sing. The sense of One Worldly responsibility that Luce and others followed to stir the U.S. out of isolationism in 1937-1940, and so help preserve Europe from Adolf Hitler, has now become a rhetorical excuse for bombing Viet Nam. That is, among other things, an American tragedy, which...
...absolute egalitarian. Any society has to have rewards and punishments for appropriate behaviors so that's almost bound to produce inequality because some people will behave in ways in which society values and thus reap rewards. The usual utopian method is to use sanctions, some type of pressure to induce appropriate behavior. I find the use of economic sanction much more attractive. If everyone received the same hourly wage, and the only source of "Inequality was how hard you worked, then I wouldn't feel a bit bad about that. But I take John Rawls's (professor of Philosophy), position...