Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ways and Means Chairman Ullman fumes that the very idea is "totally preposterous." Congress, he points out, can scarcely be expected to deal with "a mythical budget that doesn't exist. Now if the President really wants a $395 billion budget, he ought to send it up." Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey dismissed Ford's proposal as "a subtle ploy but not hard for people to figure out: give 'em a tax cut in January and hack the budget after the elections...
...photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist." This is what an arrogant leech-upon-artists-type says in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. And it's a measure of his pretension that he thinks a picture of the corner drugstore down the street, a store you might pass every day, couldn't have any "dignity." But in the novel, his contemporaries nod in assent, and Proust himself might accept this sentimental notion...
...photographer takes a picture of people at a fair, say, then he's captured something that couldn't be reproduced in tme. Ever. The people at the fair may still exist, the fair itself comes every autumn, but something appears in those photographic images that can never be seen again. And it's not exactly "a reproduction of reality" either...
...White students don't think blacks exist as their intellectual equals or challenge, but exist as a tape recorder exists. You talk into it; but don't expect a response...
Sociologist Palmer believes that the competitive, increasingly computerized and mechanized nature of U.S. society is creating more and more lost and purposeless people. To a degree, those conditions exist in most industrialized nations. But in the U.S. they are especially intense and combined with particularly American elements that have almost become cliches: the loosening of many moral and social restraints on all kinds of behavior in an increasingly lax society; the decline of tradition and the breakdown of the family; the mobility of American life that so often turns into rootlessness; the U.S. frontier culture of violence and its still...