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...first is that emotionalism is a way to build a political movement. Of course, pure emotionalism is to be disdained a movement must be built on understanding. But people do not act purely on intellectual understanding--for example. Reagan's success is closely tied to his ability to evoke emotions. There is a danger that emotionalism can be carried to an extreme--but understanding its proper role is necessary for any successful movement. A certain amount of emotionalism is necessary to tie people into a movement, to visibly express one's more-than-intellectual beliefs, to forge a spirit...
...original venture of three MIT professors, two of whom remain on the seven-man board of directors (the third is deceased). The firm's unusual breadth of research activity and symbiotic relationship with Cambridge's academic world make it a sanctuary for researchers in fields from the arts to pure physical sciences and perhaps a prototype for the "silver collar" companies of the future...
...maybe we've finished once and for all with that crap about the Jewish monopoly on morality, about the moral lesson of the Holocaust and the persecutions, about the Jews, who were supposed to have emerged from the gas chambers pure and good...
...reaction to its on-board computer, which provides information like projected gas mileage and estimated time of arrival for a trip. Chrysler offered the talking feature on its 1983 models, but consumer response has been so poor that the company may abandon it. Said AMC's Murphy: "The pure gimmickry won't sell if people think it cheapens the car." Nonetheless, all four U.S. automakers made the pilgrimage to the Tokyo show to see what the competition would be offering...
Unlike past laureates, like George Stigler, the 1982 winner who has been critical of government regulation, Debreu is purely a theorist. "We have never before awarded the prize for contributions of such pure basic research," said Assar Lindbeck, chairman of the five-member Nobel committee. Notes Bent Hanson, chairman of the Berkeley economics department: "Gerard Debreu is an economist's economist. His work is very abstract, very fundamental. But everyone in the profession quotes him and must demonstrate that they know his work...