Word: pragmatist
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...Christian pragmatist, I am disgusted by the action of President Goheen and his trustees against Father Halton. It reminds me of the mama's boys who won't play unless they can make the rules. Because Father Halton acts as if free speech means free speech, he has been ruled out of bounds. Rah! Rah! Tiger! Excuse it please, we mean Tabby...
...almost alone. Mikoyan will always leap to the winning side, and cannot be depended upon. The only first-rate man left on Khrushchev's side is Zhukov." Many felt that there was an advantage in the fact that Khrushchev was no ideologist, no man of theory, but a pragmatist, and that his pragmatism would lead him into blunders, or against his will into making more concessions than would a more doctrinaire man. But a U.S. intelligence evaluator had another view: "He has demonstrated time and again that he is a gambler, ready to go for broke. Such...
...Pragmatist. In Louisville, when the bank refused payment on his G.I. insurance dividend check made out for $72,000,000,000, Harold Fleischer pondered officials' advice to "frame it or take it up with the Veterans Administration," decided...
...been repeated often, not because someone in authority has said it ... not because it has been deduced from an infallible generality; but because it leads as accurately as possible to the kind of result that we have in mind." But there was another aspect to James, the romantic pragmatist, that Barzun also adopted as his own. "Real culture," said the philosopher, "lives by sympathies and admiration, not by dislikes and disdains...
...putty in the hands of science and society. He does not want to stick his neck out or get his feelings "mixed up" in things. He knows that strong feelings are as dangerous as disease, having read articles like "Emotion Can Give You a Running Nose." He is a pragmatist, a materialist, a "healthy sceptic," a "tough realist" -and Author Whitman warns-he is "as inadequate to our time as a bow-and-arrow on a 20th century battlefield...