Word: maximalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everything that is outmoded or that will hinder our progress, and everything that can be used to maintain the power and privilege of the Tory establishment must be swept away," exclaims far-left M.P. Eric Heffer. Heffer, 59, rejects the old British maxim that "the Labor Party owes more to Methodism than Marx." His view is blunt: "Marxism has been a more powerful influence...
...there is any truth to the old maxim that there is a direct correlation between musical virtuosity and mathematical wizardry, then retiring Time Inc. Group Vice President, Magazines, Arthur Keylor is a case in point. He came to this company 32 years ago as a young man with a horn (best schoolboy trumpet player in New England) and a Harvard Business School degree. He has been making beautiful music ever since his first days in the comptroller's department, where, he recalls, "I had little knowledge of accounting, but there I was closing the books...
BUREAUCRACY IS RARELY a tool for justice. That maxim was proved again Monday afternoon, when the Committee on House and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) took a deep breath and plunged into a swamp of parliamentary detail, emerging not with an affirmation of the rights of campus gay students but instead with a paper solution that will please only administrators embarassed by discussion of the issue...
They say--somewhere, somebody says this--that basketball is a game of inches. In the case of the Crimson varsity basketball team, that maxim is particularly true...
...Democratic Party may find an opportunity in the next four years to demonstrate the virtues of its old openheartedness when it is practiced in imaginative ways. But if the party merely reverts to a reflexive New Dealism, it may only be an opposition that proves the maxim formulated by the late social theorist Ernest Becker: "A protest without a program is little more than sentimentalism-this is the epitaph of many of the great idealisms...