Word: minde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some of the more extreme people are totally unrealistic. They claim that they had some wonderful scenario in their mind that inflation was going to come down gradually, not too much and not too little, and everything was going to come out just great eight years later. Things don't work in that orderly a fashion. They ought to be happy that, from their standpoint politically, everything came out beautifully. They took their lumps in the first couple of years ((with a recession)) and by the 1984 election everything was going fine. Now they're rednecked about being blamed...
Hirsch's explanation of the "theory behind the dictionary," like the controversial educational absolutism of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, justifies his imposition of a cultural curriculum on all Americans by staking a populist claim to universal education and patriotism. To Hirsch, it is not enough that all children learn how to read; he believes true functional literacy requires a particular back-ground of factual information, which he proceeds to outline in his 600-page, 23-chapter tome. Despite his protestations against labels of academic elitism, however, his arguments are hardly geared to the masses...
...listed as the capital of Florida.) But we must be wary of a 600-page list of information with an implicit message that says "You must read me." Perhaps knowledge is power, but is that knowledge confined to the superficial identifications E.D. Hirsch finds important? We should keep in mind another educational truism: "A little learning can be a dangerous thing...
...process, creating the current spate of product shortages. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based think tank, agrees that Soviet supply and demand has gone seriously out of kilter. "By allowing increased purchasing power and providing nothing more to spend it on, the authorities have created a mind- boggling situation," he says...
This week, at the American Astronomical Society's winter meeting in Boston, physicist Alan Guth of M.I.T. will announce the most mind-numbing wormhole- related news yet. Guth and two collaborators have determined, he says, that "it would apparently be possible in principle for some advanced society literally to create an entirely new universe." The wormhole connection: such + a universe would automatically create its own wormhole, squeeze through it, and then draw the hole closed after...