Word: pareto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made up for the amiable neutrality that had previously characterized the Saturday Review. Writing in a prose style so vehement it sometimes seemed apoplectic, Editor De Voto raged at U. S. intellectuals, accusing them en masse of "misrepresenting" the country. He passionately championed the cause of the Italian sociologist, Pareto. His critical haymakers included swings at Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Marx, reformers and believers in planned societies, Van Wyck Brooks, progressive education. With enthusiasms just as intense as his animosities, he called Robert Frost "the finest American poet, living or dead," raged at critics who did not agree. The back...
...lecture today Dr. Einaudi will take up the development of the doctrine of a political class or a political elite. Be will deal with Mosca and Pareto whose works have been influential in the development of this idea. Mosca's s less well known in this country than Pareto, but it was from Mosca's works, published twenty years before Pareto began writing, that the latter drew many of his beliefs. His works are now in the process of translation by Professor Arthur Livingston of Columbia...
...MIND AND SOCIETY-Vilfredo Pareto-Harcourt, Brace (4 Vols...
Lecturer DeVoto, who has become widely known through his articles in Harper's on subjects ranging from the Mormon frontier, through New England and its spirit, to the philosophy of Pareto, is the author of "Mark Twain's America" and several works of fiction...
...fills a great part of Vol. II, irreverent readers may get more than a fleeting glimpse of a great thinker in his more human and homely role as a cranky old professor, may echo with amusement Translator Livingston's grave comment: "In his treatment of the sex residue Pareto is less objective than is his wont...