Word: intuitionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The spectacle that Heilbroner's thesis represents is almost as distressing as his prospect for the race. Here is no Spengler taking a sardonic pleasure in declines and falls. Here is a man of practical intelligence and good will, a man equipped by temperament and upbringing to hope. Yet...
Not long ago, Kurt Vonnegut predicted that "things are going to get worse and worse and never get better again." That black intuition may account for the compulsive nostalgia that seems to be driving many Americans back into any past that they can contrive to regard as comforting-here the...
Even before the first word of testimony, many trials pass through a critical yet haphazard phase: the selection of jurors. In major cases prosecutors sometimes do enlist police or the FBI to check out potential jurors; defense attorneys occasionally commission their own investigations when their clients can foot the bill...
Beame's election is a return to machine-type politics in a city which had been dominated by the Democratic machine for nearly 100 years. Although from most indications, Watergate had little impact on the race, Beame is the type of candidate who is likely to be popular in a...
McGuane is rhapsodic in his meticulous, almost poetic description of the inspiration the ocean offers Skelton--seascapes of rocky bottom and tide-waved weeds; schools of fish gliding instinctively past each other without colliding; the expert crafting from scratch of Tom's skiff; the art of guiding that provides a...