Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edelman's business school community critics seem somewhat foolish in their outrage, we should not be so quick to condemn them for standing up for the integrity of the classroom, regardless of how illusory that principle must be at any school of business...
...requires a great amount of pretense to pass off a business school as a part of an academic community. But we should not be so quick to mock that pretense. So long as universities take as part of their mission the education of future businessman, lawyers, and doctors, they will always be something less than committed to a purely intellectual ideal. But it is at least nice to see that they have some regrets about this state of affairs--that a Business School such as Columbia still is commited to the acadmeic ideal enough that a professor such as Edleman...
...which helps to explain why the strike and the union melted so easily. The scab games largely were ignored by the fans, who were able to have their sports appetites sated by baseball post-season action. Public pressure for a quick resolution to the impasse acceptable to both sides of the dispute thus was not very great...
Chanting in the dusky gloom before a battle, a robed figure stoops and ignites a circle of blue flame in the red clay soil around him. With one quick twist, a woman fluffs her white veil into swaddling and so conjures up a baby in arms. Horns blare as a crowd of celebrants, resplendent in red, holds aloft a richly caparisoned tent for the wedding of a blind king. A master of military arts orders a disciple to cut off his right thumb and thereby lose his strength and skill. "It is not cruelty," the teacher explains. "It is foresight...
...course -- because the joint is bound to be packed with publicists, photo opportunists and blaring life-stylists. The manufacture of quick and disposable illusions is an overwhelming reality in an era when the concept of image is replacing the value of reputation. What Historian Daniel J. Boorstin called pseudo events 25 fleeting years ago are now accepted as genuine occurrences that shape politics, economics, culture and the way individuals experience the world or, more important, choose...