Word: gradualism
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Greece's Constantinos A. Doxiadis is an oracle among planners. As proprietor of the multidisciplinary science of human settlements he calls Ekistics, he foresees the gradual evolution of "Ecumenopolis"-a world city formed by overlapping megalopolises. If present trends continue, he says, the world city will be a ghastly, inhuman place. Determined to head off such a bleak future, Doxiadis is trying to shape the growth of today's cities. He has just completed a fiveyear, $3,000,000 study of the 23,059-sq. mi. "Urban Detroit Area," sponsored by the Detroit Edison...
...similar. Walter Heller summed up: "The U.S. is beginning a long, slow climb back to full employment." The outlook, he said, is for "progress, but stagnancy." All the other members of the board basically concur. They foresee only small rises in production and profits next year, and predict a gradual lessening of inflation. The budget cutbacks by the Nixon Administration and the severe squeeze on the money supply, applied until early 1970 by the Federal Reserve Board, are at last bringing inflation under control. But these policies have produced a great amount of slack in the economy, which precludes...
Then, still under Dr. Houston's direction, I made an enormous effort to revive my poor star. At first I thought to myself that this would probably occur as the gradual brightening of a star in the blackness. But instead, and all of a sudden, I saw the black sky suddenly flash into total, blinding white light. And in an inexplicable way I could see thousands of stars everywhere in the blazing whiteness. Quite unexpectedly, the black sky flashed again into my mind, eliminating the light, but the white sky quickly returned, and I was confident that...
...quote Gould's friend Bob Kaufman on Gould's changeable attitude (or gradual disenchantment) toward directors, ending with a disparaging comment about Mervyn Le Roy. I am sure Kaufman did not intend to be unkind or unfair, but it is hard to accept such disparagement of a man whose credits include I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Random Harvest, Waterloo Bridge and the production of Wizard of Oz-and whose finest credit is that he is one of the gentlest, most civilized human beings around...
...quadrennial patronage prize and placing it in the hands of a semi-independent corporation. He has made Selective Service more equitable. He has reorganized the key decision-making and administrative apparatus of the White House. In foreign and military affairs, Nixon has formulated and begun to accomplish a gradual but potentially significant pullback in both commitments and forces -a more realistic alignment of policy with power. Other reforms, however, have faltered. Among them...