Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while throwing exactly three Americans out of work?the three members of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. That partisan hyperbole encouraged the illusion that inflation can be stopped painlessly. It cannot. Whatever else the Government does, it must tighten spending and credit policies in order to wring excess demand out of the economy. Removing the excess inevitably bounces the marginal workers back onto the streets again...
When I was sitting in a coffee house in Athens, around the corner came a platoon of about 400 Greek school children, aged about 10 to 16, all wearing T-shirts bearing the junta emblem and marching in perfect step. It is unsettling to speculate where this excess youthful energy might be channeled...
This fall in the same arena, the same company plays Jarry with manic polish and aggressiveness. There are moments of tedium, but more than a few moments of genius. Most interesting is Jarry's exploration-from the comic-erotic novel Supermale-of sexual excess pursued to the point of agony and death. Demonstrating incidentally that the body costumed can be more profoundly arousing in theater than the body naked, Jarry on sex as produced by Barrault is visually delightful, intellectually provocative, closer to Sade's black understanding than to Tynan's slick preaching...
...erratic index also declined three months ago -with little impact on consumer prices. After a hesitation in late summer, consumer-price inflation has speeded up again almost to the fast pace of last winter. The C.E.D.'s analysis is that prices are no longer being pulled up by excess demand, which the Government has effectively attacked by holding down federal spending and the increase in the nation's money supply. Instead, prices are being pushed up by the wage-cost pressures that an incomes policy would be aimed against...
Clearly Cioran has the desperate sense of excess to qualify him as a 1970s man. Professional doubters, too, are a dime a dozen these days. But the special value of Cioran is that, with all his heart, he doubts even doubt itself. He is the man with no answers who tests everybody else's answers with a skepticism at the pitch of fanaticism. No age should be without such a man; no age needs more than...