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...confusion is born from the lack of cohesion of Transcendentalism, itself: As Gura points out at the very beginning of his book, no one Transcendentalist shared the same definition of Transcendentalism with any other. Although his effort to accurately portray each element of the movement forces him to abandon linear narrative, Gura’s careful attention to every detail and variation of thought within the movement gives his work its authority. His vibrant representation of the Transcendental thinkers beautifully characterizes both their philosophies and their personalities. Emerson, he explains, was “not so much imposing as magnetic...
That sort of pre-emptive analysis has been missing from the linear software programs still used by most companies, says Amar Gupta, an M.I.T. productivity expert. NuTech and such competitors as BiosGroup and Searchspace are counted among the pioneers of the next tech revolution. "This kind of software gives us the ability to analyze a lot of information a lot better," says Gupta. "Everybody has to be agile, and in order to be agile, you have to be able to pinpoint trends...
...Sandoz, as at most pharmaceutical companies in those days, new products came to market through a linear, three-step sequence. Researchers would seek out potential drugs. Development teams would test and refine them in hopes of winning regulatory approval. Finally, marketers would peddle the approved drugs to physicians. These steps were typically conducted in isolation, so developers would sometimes find out too late that a candidate drug had terrible side effects or could not be mass-produced economically. Or marketers would discover late in the process that there wasn't much demand for the new drug they would soon...
...editor, has done with “A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today,” a book which can easily be viewed as a treatise on history. Far from being Marx’s series of evolving dialectics or Fukuyama’s linear trajectory towards the liberal democratic “end of history,” Andelman’s history is a process that is often indelibly altered by the actions of a small number of individuals. Certainly, one of his criticisms of the Peace Conference at Versailles is that only...
...there any social or political parallels between the '60s and today? -Daniel Kolich, Aliquippa, Pa. There's no linear view of the '60s. There's no consensus. When I wrote The Greatest Generation there was a common idea of what that generation was all about. You mention the'60s and you start an argument...