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Word: highfalutin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Krauthammer's commentary "The Clinton Doctrine" [ESSAY, April 5], in which he quoted a foreign policy expert's description of managing the "teacup wars" of the world and the "uncivil civil wars" of nation-states. The interest came from its facts and logic, the sadness from the doctrine's "highfalutin moral principles [that] are impossible guides to foreign policy" and the inevitable wavering between the deplorable poles of hypocrisy and naivete. After reflection, however, I find that both President Clinton and Krauthammer are correct. The Kosovo affair seems like the pursuit of knowledge. One ought to gain some new learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 26, 1999 | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...these guys in it to improve the world or make money? "It's one of those situations where they coincide," Bellenson says. Sasson won't get sucked into highfalutin moral speculation, commenting only on the excitement of the intranet. America's high-tech culture has indeed combined doing well and doing good--getting rich and making the world a better place--with more success, probably, than any similar-size group of people in the history of the world. And for biotech, especially, the miracles are just beginning. If the citizens of this Other Beltway wish to believe they're doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTINENTAL DIVIDE | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...picture of two buttoned-down bankers from highfalutin Wall Street power Morgan Stanley smiling and waving their Discover cards would have looked preposterous just five years ago. These are not regular guys. Morgan's chairman, Richard B. Fisher, and CEO, John J. Mack, made $7 million each in 1995. Platinum-card material, wouldn't you say? Don't look for this pair at the self-service pump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MORGAN STANLEY'S DISCOVERY | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...Lincoln was a prominent railroad lawyer in 1860, but he campaigned for the White House as the simple Midwestern rail-splitter. And his last moments were spent watching a play, Our American Cousin, in which an unsophisticated rustic journeys to Britain, where he gets the better of his highfalutin relatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'M JUST THAT SIMPLE | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...need for the culture to have a myth, like the Greeks had. We don't have any. So I think people look to Star Trek to set up a leader and a hearty band of followers. It's Greek classical storytelling." Not that the stars buy all the highfalutin analyses of their work. Kirk has been described as a classic Kennedyesque cold warrior. "That's too esoteric for me," says Shatner. "All I wanted to do was come up with a good character. I always played Kirk close to myself, mostly because of fatigue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek: Trekking Onward | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

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