Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RECENT DISCLOSURES concerning widespread, systematic interference in American politics by the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), apparently under orders from South Korean President Park Chung Hee, have serious implications for American foreign policy in general and for American relations with the Park regime in particular...
...When I came out West, I had to support myself. But I was very particular about the kind of job I would take. I didn't want to work, y'see. So I got a job as a newspaper man. Lord, I hated to do it, but I couldn't find honest employment...
What is disheartening about this particular piece is that Glazer does a much better job explaining the same thesis in his longer work Affirmative Discrimination. Daedalus is simply a distillery for Glazer. We get his essence without getting any of the facts to attempt to back his contention. This shortcoming is a function of length; he cannot monopolize the 250 pages or so that he needs to explain and defend his thesis. Barring that, we must settle for an abbreviated historiography of discrimination and the naked conclusions he draws...
...music provided an excellent vehicle for Shumsky's awe-inspiring technical capability and his power to elicit clean, solid tone. The accompaniment by the chamber ensemble, especially in the final Allegro, had a shimmering, airy quality--one that marks a thoughtful interpretation of Italian Baroque music. Michael Curry, in particular, carried the obbligato lines to Shumsky's solo passages with crisp vitality...
...particular feeling is that there is no particular virtue in not eating cake unless it helps my brother to have bread ... the ascetic ideal as such makes no appeal to me. The question, as I see it, is the extent to which our denial may help others ... My wife has a leaky heart. If she can be kept from overwork the doctor has said that she may hope for a reasonable long and useful life ... I think it is a dubious service to society not to bring up [my five children] as well...