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...much interested in whether linguistics is much of a help in teaching grammar. It is, says his M.I.T. colleague Jerry A. Fodor, "like teaching the driver of a car the theory of the internal-combustion engine before letting him drive." Chomsky's own goal is far grander than grammar: to refine a philosophy of language and to fathom the workings of the mind. But he is not arrogant about his task. "It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence," he sighs, "to understand how human intelligence works...
Grand Scale. When Kaiser needed more cement for his prewar construction projects, he founded a cement company and one to supply sand and gravel. As an industrialist he followed this idea on a grander scale. Because steel shipments were slow, he organized Kaiser Steel at Fontana, Calif., with a $123 million Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan that brought considerable criticism from Congress and Wall Street alike. He dabbled in airplanes, and with Howard Hughes conceived the idea of a ten-engine cargo plane that never got off the drafting board. Later he founded Kaiser Aluminum...
...individuals, not simply submissive to Danglar's way of life. Though we initially question the individuality of people who happily exist as part of the order of Danglar's universe. Renoir knows that commitment to life on a huge scale is not important; Danglar's life style is grander, more imposing, but the dancers (like Camilla) find life's deepest, most joyful, meaning for themselves through dancing. Nini allows Danglar to leave her, abandons a rich lover and an ex-fiance, choosing the Cancan, not men, as the truest means of self-expression...
...Freedom Budget is the A. Philip Randolph Institute's proposal to spend $185 billion of federal funds over the next ten years to create new jobs and to increase Social Security and other transfer payments. The Budget is on a much grander scale than the poverty program...
...current Cultural Revolution is in a grander sense another clash of "reds" and "experts" that may tear apart the old compromise. The reds are Mao's Red Guards plus groups of older citizens that support them; the experts are the bureaucrats and local party leaders who have devoted their lives to fulfilling production quotas and maintaining their power...