Word: hogwash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, let anything that's been said so far keep you from seeing the movie. Hollywood, after all, never gave you more at the movies. And compared to A Man and a Woman, Happy New Year is a masterwork. It's also hogwash. So go lose yourself in it, just don't take it for real. Because it's only another kiss kiss bang bang movie...
...setup confers enormous power on the COLC's Dunlop. He has frank contempt for "magic numbers"; he once called the idea that all wage boosts should conform to a single numerical standard "hogwash." He prefers to weigh each case individually and relies on head-knocking by private negotiation rather than fiat by issuing orders...
...organic revolution. The prophets at the "great secular universities" believed that history was clearly heading in one direction, that the human race was becoming more and more enlightened through the centuries, and that with this enlightenment would come a new maturity which in turn would make religious myths unnecessary. Hogwash, Greeley argues from Nisbet History shows change to be discontinuous, discreet and non-directional. Neither gradual "enlightenment" nor the loss of the need for myth is inevitable, Greeley says...
...last Saturday's article about the firing of Samuel Bowles, chairman of the Economics Department was quoted to the effect that teaching is a factor in decisions regarding promotion at Harvard. What hogwash! Anybody who has ever taken courses in the department is well aware that the men who teach those courses never could have been chosen on the basis of their ability to teach. The only reason that most students attend classes at all is because they have to get by the general exams given by those same...
...hard-and-fast guideline for pay increases. If one craft was earning far less than another in the same area, he allowed a large wage increase-30% or more in some instances. "I'm not interested in one number," argued Dunlop. "That's a lot of hogwash...