Word: idea
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...prospect of deadlocked elections being settled by Congress, Thomas Jefferson called the Electoral College system "the most dangerous blot on our Constitution." No fewer than 500 attempts have been made to reform the procedure, but none has ever got past Congress. Now it appears that electoral reform is an idea whose time has come...
...even his friends have any clear idea how Chichester-Clark intends to govern. His one known political formulation is that he supports the "one man, one vote" demand of the Catholic opposition-but "not at the present time...
Barrientos was also a man of vision who hoped to include in his own brand of forceful democracy the Indian campesinos whose Quechua dialect he spoke so well. "I have the idea that every citizen must be a participant in building his country," he once said. "In order to be a participant, he must know what the problems are and how they can be solved. In order to know, he must receive information and believe it. The destiny of telling the campesinos has fallen on me, a good friend of theirs." By plane and helicopter, Barrientos pursued his destiny, often...
Both the outsiders and the defectors are concerned that technological society is headed for what John Gardner calls "the beehive model"-a world of faceless bureaucracies and powerless individuals. One target is today's "multiversity," with its fragmented specialists, the antithesis of Cardinal Newman's 19th century idea of the university as a seeker of wholeness. Many intellectuals are also dismayed by the style of much intellectual thought today: the narrow pragmatism of the physical and behavioral sciences. The charge is that specialization has robbed thought of moral vision. In Big Science, for example, team members work...
Against Usury. In part, this innocence of money matters is due to Islam's ancient strictures against usury. Although these prohibitions have not interfered with the prosperity of Lebanese bankers or Arab oil sheiks, many Moslems still feel duty-bound to refuse interest payments; they reject the idea of borrowing money and refrain from other business practices that might violate the precepts of the Koran. At the heart of such caution is a conviction that one of a Moslem's basic duties in life is not to compete with his fellow man but to prepare for his entry...