Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road and given it an indisputably original twist by using a U. S. road map for most of the plot, and a Mexican map for the rest of it. Everything happens while the characters are physically on the move and nothing every happens when they stop. Outside of pure motion, there is no development of anything. Whenever some danger of a little drama through which personal relationships or just plain personalities might be explored develops, Kerouac drops the situation...
...French scale of reckoning, a crise grave, which involves major issues, ranks one degree above a crise banale, which is a consequence of pure partisan fighting...
Industrialization is not boosted or inflation cured by overspending for armaments, by constant overreaching for "too much," by sheer "waste" from planning caused by pure political expediency. "If governments become the prisoners of their own more or less arbitrary development targets, in all probability something will have to give under the pressures of inflation and the impatience generated because practice is not living up to promise. And perhaps the greatest danger is not that development will give, but that government by the consent of the governed will be abandoned...
...that the word inflation is often misused, notably as it applies to the U.S. It is inexcusably "loose," says he, to call what happened in Germany after World War I inflation and also use inflation to describe the "comparatively moderate price rises in U.S. history." The German case was "pure inflation" because there was no offsetting increase in output, reinvestment and in per-capita real income. What has happened in the U.S., says he, is something quite different. The best way to describe it is "price adjustments to output changes." Hansen says it would be a tragic mistake...
...Tata, who started in the steel company at 18, is the strongest Indian voice raised against efforts to destroy free enterprise. His reports to stockholders warn Indians against being fooled about state control of economic life. Only a handful of men. says he, can be motivated by pure service. The rest must be driven by fear or actuated by hope of gain, as in the United States, which he publicly defends as the ideal of a welfare state that has not sacrificed efficiency or freedom. But Tata is impatient of Americans, feels they do not understand his country...