Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another sense, this riddle of a building, this glass and brick sphinx, thrusts one rude question at them all: In a world where the physical scientists promise to solve social problems and the social scientists promise to solve all the rest (including happiness), who really needs a liberal arts scholar? By their words, by this year of their lives, the first fellows of the National Humanities Center are working on an answer for the many people, not excluding themselves, to whom the absolute value of a liberal arts education has become a casualty of modern doubt second only to religion...
...what is a liberal arts scholar good for? The question, of course, has not been answered, unless it counts to discover that such questions can have no final answers. Plato's Symposium ends with a vision of Socrates standing fixed in thought from early dawn until noon, until sunset, until early dawn of the following day. The image may seem comic at first, but it be comes moving and finally majestic, even though nobody ever learns what Socrates was thinking. Plato gave the only explanation necessary. The unexamined life, he said, is not worth living. Meanwhile, back...
...question of Brezhnev's health casts a long shadow over the nearly completed Strategic Arms Limitation treaty-and indeed over all of U.S.-Soviet relations. If Brezhnev is unable to see the marathon negotiations through to the end, a settlement and signing might be delayed for months-perhaps indefinitely. The very prospect of the struggle for succession may have been an element in the repeated delays over the Strategic Arms Limitation treaty...
...first time in five years, Britain has a majority government that appears capable of ruling the country for a full five-year term. That electoral stability allows Thatcher to confront the unions head on?if she so chooses. The big question facing Britain now is whether the determined Iron Lady, having gained the pinnacle of political success, will act according to the sharp words that sometimes marked her campaign rhetoric, or the conciliatory ones of St. Francis that she quoted so movingly on the doorstep...
...been breaking down significantly anyway during an era in which unemployment among whites was virtually nonexistent and approached 20% among blacks in urban areas. Employers have long made a practice of hiring Africans for jobs theoretically reserved for whites because no white applicants were available; the job in question would simply be listed as "painter's assistant" rather than painter, or "woodworker" instead of carpenter...