Word: rand
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Because Review tries to avoid what Buckley calls "extreme apriorism," it has parted company with some dogmatic conservatives. "Objectivist" Ayn Rand, who believes that all human activity should be self-serving, refuses even to appear in the same room with Buckley because the Review panned her novel Atlas Shrugged. Max Eastman resigned, with barbs on both sides, after he accused Buckley of tying conservatism too closely to religion...
...cool, urbane intellectual, Hitch spent 13 years as a top analyst of military problems for the Government-supported Rand Corp., where he devised the "systems analysis" approach to military spending. In 1961, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara lured him to Washington as Comptroller and Assistant Secretary of Defense. During his five years in Washington, Hitch employed reasonableness and an instinct for diplomacy to coax skeptical Congressmen and scornful generals into accepting the notion that money should be assigned on the basis of military missions rather than service demands...
...from the University of Arizona, and after a year of graduate study at Harvard, spent 15 years as a Rhodes Scholar and don at Oxford. He served with the Office of Strategic Services in World War II, taught briefly at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil before joining Rand in 1948. He and his wife Nancy have one adopted daughter...
...Harvard Advocate, H-R Association of African and Afro-American Students, H-R Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy, Harvard Art Review, H-R Ayn Rand Society, Harvard University Band, Harvard Undergraduate Bridge Club, H-R Assoc. of Business and Economics Students...
AMERICANS believe in numbers. As a democracy, the U.S. chooses its leaders statistically, so to speak, by the simple process of counting votes. Numbers measure the economy, record social progress, identify people on credit card rolls and bank accounts. "In a numerically conscious society," says Rand Corp. Researcher Amrom H. Katz, "progress is measured by numbers, not by quality...