Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME has perpetuated one of America's greatest fallacies in its Essay "Of Truth and Money" by referring to money as "one reliable means of keeping score on the accomplishments of a person, a company or a country...
...does in its epithet "a $X-a-year man," to his income-generating abilities, TIME has put down the contributions of the Platos, Aristotles, Kants, Pascals, Salks of this world in favor of the measurable but more ques- tionable contributions of this world's Onas-sises and Gettys. Money does not mirror reality; it provides a market value. To use it as any indication of intrinsic worth is as fallacious as the notion that the artistic value of an entertainment is reflected in its box-office returns...
...authority will sell bonds for a particular project on the open market, and then use the money received to pay for the expenses of the project, including costs of acquiring land and planning the project as well as basic construction costs. Once the project is completed, the authority will rent it to the college and will retain title until the college pays off principal and interest on the bonds...
...This could be a major source of new funds for Harvard now that the Federal money is starting to dry up," one University official said this week. He added that the law allows the authority to finance a wide range of projects--including for example, parking garages and student housing. Though the law is still not entirely clear, possibly the only Harvard construction that could not be so financed would be Faculty housing, he said...
...Millionairess is, in terms of style and construction, the most conventional of Shaw's late plays. While before and after it he was veering off in countless strange directions, for this effort Shaw marshalled all his technical prowess and produced the definitive summation of his theories concerning power, money, work, and conscience. Of all Shaw's outpourings, this is perhaps the most purely comic in tone, and therefore affords a splendid view of the craftsman at work, of a half century of theatrical experience synthesized into two hours and some odd of laugh piled upon laugh. That the play also...