Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intricacies of monetary theory generally seem as mystifying as the Mock Turtle's description in Alice in Wonderland of "the different branches of arithmetic?Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision." Money supply can be measured in four ways, but Friedman prefers to use the total of currency in circulation plus checking accounts and time deposits in banks. The Federal Reserve controls the rate at which money supply grows or shrinks chiefly by buying or selling Government bonds. When the board buys bonds, it automatically raises the quantity of reserves available to banks; this increases the amount of credit that banks...
...sights on the road were as memorable as the people; long strings of lights on the highways (America lives for its wheels); mock-cathedral train stations (the crowns of a railroad-crazed century); bus terminals with floors that could never be swept clean (twentieth century transportation, up front about itself). The sights told of a breathing, choking land that the books cannot describe, of lives that must be seen to be believed...
...Questioned about his stature as a painter, Salvador Dali once remarked, "I consider myself a very mediocre painter [but] I'm a better painter than my contemporaries." John Tenniel isn't a contemporary, but the original illustrator of Alice still seems best. Although Dali's Mock Turtle is stupendous, most of the twelve lavish color illustrations and one original color etching are more evocative of Dali than Alice...
During the past two days, a large truck has been driving through Washington, carrying mock tombstones labeled with the names of countries that have "fallen" to Communism, along with the dates they fell. The last one reads...
...would these professors respond to the radical view? Their response to the CRIMSON editorial, an editorial written in the radical vein is interesting here. They respond not by argument but by invidious rank-pulling. Much as they mock the editorial, they produce not a single argument against it. Rather the implication is that such an ignorant editorial ("simplistic," "shoddy") merits not argument, but counter-assertion and contempt from informed scholars, amongst whom the professors clearly place themselves. This is arrogant nonsense. There are plenty of scholars, at least as well-informed as our self-esteeming professors (albeit of a different...