Word: pragmatists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Road Ahead. Among his fellow economists, Walter Heller is usually tagged as a "liberal," but he departs so often from what used to be liberal cliches that the identity tag is a bit blurred. A more descriptive label, one that he applies to himself, is "pragmatist." That is the vogue word among economists today, the term that most of them use to label themselves and one another. When economists call themselves pragmatists, they mean that they are the opposite of dogmatists, that they are wary of broad theories, that they lean to the cut-and-try approach to public problems...
...talk about bravery, camaraderie, and general intolerance for cowardice. Miller's representation of the relationship between the men who went to war and the folks back home is far from a responsible, accurate social picture. Then there is the mother, obsessed by fear and guilt, but always a pragmatist. After her husband's suicide, her immediate words are, "Don't take it on yourself. Forget now, Live." There is hardly a need to categorize the rest of the injured and innocent characters. As is usual in Miller's plays, the only interesting character is the father, the center...
...contained in the words "American Catholic." In the historical reality behind those words St Ignatius Loyola, founder of John Courtney Murray's order and soldier-saint meets Citizen Tom Paine, soldier-atheist. St. Thomas, the Angelic Doctor and patient builder of a great intellectual system, meets John Dewey, pragmatist and patient destroyer of systems. Monasticism, shielding a candle through the Dark Ages, meets the blaze of the Enlightenment. The Inquisition meets the Supreme Court, the apostolic succession meets the clapboard Congregationalist Church, the Sacred Roman Rota meets Reno...
Burdened Conscience. The heirs to that tradition face a momentous choice today, as Murray sees it. The modern rationalist and pragmatist experiment, he feels, has failed. That experiment tried to carry on Western liberalism, whose roots are Christian, without Christianity. The individual conscience, lacking religion to inform...
...burly, down-to-earth pragmatist with an earthy vocabulary, Dr. Phillips, 48, has given Krebiozen to about 300 patients -more than any other physician. He keeps aloof from the charges and countercharges about Krebiozen. He is convinced that Krebiozen helps his patients. But he frankly admits that he cannot be sure. He has neither the training nor the time-, to become a research scientist, he says...