Word: prescient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense that it was being used as a conduit to serve Allen's ends. Questioners rummaged once again through the familiar story of the unreported $1,000 Japanese tip and all the evasions and revisions since then. Marvin Kalb, coolly and skillfully closed the program with two prescient questions: "Do you feel that you have been wronged by anyone in this Administration?" "No." "By the press?" ". . . Terribly irresponsible things have happened. At our house, which has been staked out every morning beginning at 5:30 by media people, trees have been climbed to look in bedroom windows. An attempt...
...James R. Jones, the pleasantly determined Democratic Congressman from Oklahoma who chairs the House Budget Committee. In the battle over figures that now commands the front pages and more time than the Join Chancellors probably would like to give it on the nightly news, Jones has been particularly prescient and responsible. He saw the budget crunch coming back in 1972 when he was first elected to Congress. "The Government even then was running away from the people," he says...
...season and looming, savage cutbacks in federal aid--do not bite too deeply, and the ART makes strides towards getting more students into the Loeb--perhaps by further reducing the price of the already dirt-cheap student pass--future seasons are likely to show that Brustein and Harvard were prescient in teaming up. But before their teamwork becomes fully effective, somehow the gap between the academic theater and the live theater will have to narrow. Let's hope the academics grow to appreciate the need for the director in the modern theater, and the theater professionals find in the academics...
That was only the beginning. When Ross died and was succeeded by Shawn in 1952, other lengthy reports, some of them prescient, began to appear: Rachel Carson documenting environmental destruction, James Baldwin warning whites of The Fire Next Time. No longer resounding with gaiety and wit, The New Yorker had become a serious magazine with cartoons. For a time, in its outrage over Viet Nam and Nixon, The New Yorker abandoned ironical urbanity and bared its anger. Older readers protested not only the opinions but the shrillness, and for the first time the magazine's circulation fell...
...musings will no doubt prove prescient, his analysis correct. Michael Harrington probably did "cheat" Marx, in the abstract. Nonetheless, Marx hoped for--nay, expected--the merging of theory and praxis. His was a resounding call to action. Bell's ideas have a powerful appeal, but Michael Harrington is out on the streets, trying to affect social change, while Bell is in his office, analyzing social change. The choice is stark: this weekend, you can skim The Winding Passage and absorb ideas; or you can attend the nearest DSOC meeting