Word: naturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cost: about $280 million, besides what local governments in the tropics spend. But there is a danger of starting a campaign and then running out of money. A medical entomologist in the British colonial service warned: "If work should cease, even for a relatively short time, the vectors [mosquitoes] would...
Veblen approached social criticism as if he were some expert envoy-extraordinary sent from a distant planet to report on human behavior. Under this bland mask of anthropological detachment he hid his passionate conviction that man, in being forced to labor in the sweat of his brow, was not paying...
Veblen believed that modern machinery was the latest expression of this natural instinct; he concluded that refusal to use the maximum machinery was not only economically silly but downright unnatural. The machine's chief enemy, he argued, was a moss-backed array of old-fashioned institutions and traditions - and...
The signers are: John A. Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition; William E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Policy, Emeritus; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; and Andre Morize, professor of French Literature.
I felt urged to look about me at the large afternoon crowd. There were matronly house wives, fresh from the side of their kitchen ranges and their radios. There were truant school-boys looking for a weekly thrill to help let loose their natural energy. In front of me was...