Word: politicism
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The Harvard Policy Committee's pass-fail plan, which finally materialized last week after months of discussion, is a sound proposal. Equally important, it is a politic proposal.
Somewhere he writes "I'm the politic man, the poetic man, something for everyone"; maybe he expects too much of the written word. There are, unfortunately, parts of the Goldfarb corpus that imply that saying anything is saying enough, and that no invasion of the senses, if done in the...
Last month came a ruling that threatened another aspect of bedtime life in Chile. Amid charges of white slavery and dope peddling, Frei's Interior Ministry suddenly banned prostitution and told owners of nightclubs to take the beds out of the back rooms. This was going too far. No...
The American Revolution was something else again. It was free of that special form of impatience-oversimplified ideology. Never had such forbearance and such a talent for political compromise been demanded of a body politic as the power-wary, pragmatic Founding Fathers required of the citizens of the United States...
Tough Northerner. Ky and his fellow officers of the ruling Directory had no illusions about the magnitude of their task from the beginning. As CMef of State General Nguyen Van Thieu observed in justifying the generals' takeover, the body politic was raddled with "contemptible acts of profiteering, theft, swindling...