Word: persistency
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with facts established by scientific experiments. With but a small fraction of man's activity carried on in the light of actual conditions, most of his behavior has been dictated by irrational impulses to which Pareto gave the name "residues." In many instances complexes of feeling, instincts, "residues" persist from one age to another, while the rationalizations that explain them change. Together with a theory of "the circulation of the elite"-the elite consisting of a small number of strong, determined men rising above the masses-and a theory of oscillating social cycles, Pareto introduced drama, action and will...
...arrange programs to please the greatest number. When and if an objection is raised against any part of the program, and if this opinion in the estimation of the management represents the feeling of a considerable number of people, I would consider it to be very poor policy to persist in showing the subject found objectionable. In line with this thought, when and it the petition is received, we will take immediate steps leading to the prompt removal of the feature in question...
...will go forth and buy us a derby and a cane that we too, may look like an undertaker. The dregs await us. Pathetic elegies persist in recurring...
Many thinkers have not been able to explain knowledge of the world with Mr. Chase's facility. Educators, moreover, persist in teaching what he would call the impractical arts but the students versed in this learning and training by its discipline are not likely to approach current problems with the confidently preconceived prejudices of many of our realists. If intellectual understanding and unbiased thinking are the products of such an education it is the kind of training modern youth desires...
...alarmingly potent. Though her method eschews purple passages (the description of old Anne Wendel's death is a masterly example of her matter-of-fact style) it gathers a sombre power that rhetoric rarely attains. The Executioner Waits is neither easy nor inspiriting reading, but few readers who persist to the end will soon forget...