Word: public
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sweeping changes were taking place in the country. A civil war had been fought and won, and then lost by the North: the American Industrial Revolution was just shifting into high gear-and with it the beginnings of American imperialism: and the country was caught in a period of public venality unequalled in its history before or since. But DuBois noticed none of this. He was even unaware of his race and did not connect certain slights he suffered with the color of his skin until years afterward...
FARINA'S ascension to the ranks of cultural, or more accurately subcultural, hero-dome, was effected in the most plastic of manners. Prior to his death, he was known only to a small group of folks, who were at that time a hard dying race. His public work consisted of the two record albums he made with his wife Mimi, his first novel, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, the liner notes to his records, a Judy Collins record, and a Geoff Muldaur record (I think; maybe it was a Rick von Schmidt album), plus...
...public bureaucracy provides classic examples of fraud. Galbraith said, "You need only reflect on what you have been asked to believe in this past year about the ABM [or] the honesty of the Thieu government in Vietnam." he said...
...between education and the world, it would be surprising indeed if our educational institutions were peaceful." Galbraith said. "The remedy which appeals to many people is to make the universities more amenable to bureaucratic power, intellectual fraud, old-fashioned nationalism, and a decent willingness to get killed at the public command...
Most so-called new products are merely minor variations of existing items. "A truly new product can be a big gamble," says Konigsbacher. "It would probably fail unless the company bringing it out was willing to spend heavily to educate the public." Test-marketing of a single product can cost up to $1,000,000. To cut the bill, many firms are putting heavier emphasis on refining products before the store trial; they increasingly use small panels of consumers who judge products in each stage of development, from conception to completion...