Word: maynards
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...From himself embodies John Maynard Keynes' warning that the real difficulty in changing any enterprise lies not in developing new ideas but in escaping from old ones. "The problem for us and him," says From, "is that Clinton promised to be different. He's been that a bit, but the whole is less than the sum of the parts. The fundamental change he pledged hasn't come. We've been consistent in articulating the ideas he won on, but he hasn't been consistent in advancing them. We were at this before Clinton, and we'll be at it after...
...Beverly Maynard Jeffers '45] had this song and dance member. She fell over backwards off the stage into the coal bin, with her legs sticking up," Tyler said. "The men thought it was wonderful. They thought it was on purpose...
Brinkley sketches out the beginning of the era of mass consumption, recounting how America evolved from an economy driven by production to one stimulated by consumer spending. The prophet of this change was the British economist John Maynard Keynes, who preached that the way out of the U.S.'s 1937 recession was the triggering of demand, not the revival of investment. This idea was new to the industrial age, which had always followed Say's Law of Markets in asserting that production drove consumption...
...preempted the busing plan by sending herdaughter Nancy to the Joseph E. Maynard School,one of Area Four's two public elementary schools...
...regard Mozart as somehow not a man at all-to view him as a sort of child god whose works welled up spontaneously. In his biography Mozart, published in English in 1982, Wolfgang Hildesheimer succeeded to a large degree in scraping away the legends surrounding the composer, but now Maynard Solomon, in his extraordinary new study, Mozart: A Life (HarperCollins; 640 pages; $35), has gone much further than any of his predecessors in humanizing his subject. Above all, he limns the complex relationship between Mozart and the person who was the center and the terror of his life: his father...