Word: idea
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More radical yet is the guaranteed annual income, an idea that surfaced in Edward Bellamy's 19th century novel, Looking Backward, and strikes many sociologists today as the wave of the future. Columbia Social Work Professor Richard Cloward proposes a strategy of crisis and disruption to achieve it. As Cloward sees it, welfare is a "savage and barbarous" system that strips recipients of all dignity. If millions of the poor could be shown how to claim all the benefits to which they are legally entitled, Cloward believes, they would so overload welfare rolls that Congress would have no choice...
...mean that residents of poor neighborhoods occupy 30% of the seats on city anti-poverty boards. Initially, these representatives were supposed to be elected, but after fewer than 1% of the eligible voters turned out in Los Angeles, 2.7% in Philadelphia, 4% in Cleveland, Shriver abandoned the idea...
...same time chairman of San Francisco's Natomas Co., a holding company that owns 39% of the Pacific Far East Lines as well as 54% of American President Lines. A.P.L., in turn, owns 93% of Seattle-based American Mail Lines. Last week, having mulled over the idea for two years, he moved to bring the three lines' 47 ships together under the A.P.L. house flag. "We can make several million dollars more in a consolidated operation," he explained. "It is one of those cases where one and one make three or four...
...keen" on the war. There is a general uneasiness, which is aggravated by Britain's fundamental disagreement with America over China policy. (Harlech is proud not only of the "sensibleness" but also of the consistency of Britain's China policy; he calls the French "Johnnies-come lately" to the idea of recognizing Peking. He believes the French view of the Vietnam situation is tainted by the fact that Paris has "old axes to grind" in that region.) If the war were to grow appreciably larger, dragging in China and placing severe strains on Russia, Lord Harlech believes the climate...
Looking chronologically, the total view of Matisse's artistic production reveals a progressive shift of emphasis from elaboration to a maximum simplicity. His artwork demonstrates an increasing interest in the instantaneous expression of a whole idea and a decreasing effort to fill in the detail. But attempt to organize Matisse's career into a linear development or to categorize his work into formal periods or genres results in failure. His curiosity creativity moved with such freedom of imagination that the structure of associations was too personal and complex for scholars ever to untangle, best, they can try to understand what...