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Word: pragmatist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plastic bag. The deceased in fact is a professor of logic named McFee. Like McFee, all the Jumpers are professors of philosophy at the college where Dotty's husband teaches. They have been organized as gymnasts by the vice chancellor of the college, an unscrupulous bounder, lecher and pragmatist called Sir Archibald Jumper. "McFee's dead," Jumper announces. "Shot himself ... in a plastic bag." The question is why. "It's hard to say," replies Jumper. "He was always tidy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Crime and Panachement | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

Torbert MacDonald '69 asks voters to ask the question "Paranoid or Pragmatist?" in assessing him as a potential city councilman. The question is well put. The electorate's decision to vote for him will depend on which one of those two ways they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates Line-Up | 11/2/1973 | See Source »

...Wang, in order to survive in the party structure, may try to walk a tightrope between the radicals and the pragmatist faction led by Chou Enlai. For example, there was one significantly moderate note in his speech to the Congress, when he pledged, on behalf of the party's young members, "to learn modestly from the strong points of veteran cadres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Symbolic Worker | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...Stone (Charade, Father Goose) furnishes each prominent member of the congress with a quirk or a foible by which he will be easily recognizable, if not quite human. Thus John Adams (William Daniels) is a prig, Jefferson (Ken Howard) a love-smitten daydreamer, Franklin (Howard Da Silva) a convivial pragmatist, and so on. The actors seize on these poor scraps and work them to death, although they should probably be commended for not breaking into giggles over such Stone dialogue as "Better get yourself down to Congress, Mr. Adams" or "Reconciliation my ass-the people want independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cherry Bomb | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...severely, arguing that their program should be more substantive than "woofing at policemen, feeding breakfast to children, and providing medical aid for the poor." Occasionally Bond becomes vague and imprecise: when he opts for "collectivization" and "community socialism" his arguments lack any mechanical framework for achieving them. Ever the pragmatist, Bond advocates issue-by-issue coalitions based on mutual self-interest as a primary source of black political power. But what specific strategy could transform tenuous ideology into hard reality? Bond does not respond with analytical content but chooses instead to rest upon the catch-all of "commitment...

Author: By Christopher H. Foreman, | Title: Julian's Time | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

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