Word: erraticism
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The Gardner is not even a museum in the classical sense. It's not dedicated to the continuous acquisition of art objects. It conducts no research. The paintings are there because Mrs. Jack Gardner liked them and with no other thought in mind she arranged them haphazardly all over the...
The worst form of inequality, Aristotle argued, is to try to make unequal things equal. He held instead that "equals ought to have equality" and recalled the retort of the lions, in the fable of Antisthenes, when in the council of the beasts the hares began haranguing for equality for...
The signal was to be a Tennessee Ernie Ford recording of Onward, Christian Soldiers played first thing Sunday morning over Radio Uganda On hearing the hymn, conspirators outside Kampala would know that Uganda's erratic, xenophobic President general Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada was dead and would move to...
Certainly the record of major governments in dealing with inflation gives the world's consumer little reason to trust anything they say about prices. For the most part, it is a story of weak, erratic and often misdirected policies. Because of its enormous impact on the world economy, the failure...
Italian Leprechaun. The Braves are the most improbable club in many years to make the playoffs. Their star center, Bob McAdoo, is a fingernail-biting acrophobiac who played with erratic brilliance in his first year but is leading the N.B.A. in scoring in his second. Guard Ernie DiGregorio, barely 6...