Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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To recover rationality after being irrational, to recover a normal life, is a great thing," declared John Nash, who awoke from a quarter-century of schizophrenic debilitation to accept the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. Nash's life, set forth in the new biography, A Beautiful Mind, by journalist Sylvia...
He was also a city planner. "Modern town planning comes to birth with a new architecture," he wrote in a book titled simply Urbanisme. "By this immense step in evolution, so brutal and so overwhelming, we burn our bridges and break with the past." He meant it. There were to...
Or perhaps he was cool and rational, carefully instructing his ballplayers to do the same things they had done all season--the situational hitting, smart baserunning and overall hardball sense that had gotten them a school-record 35 wins and made them the undisputed kings of New England.
But as identity politics became increasingly prominent on campus over the course of the year, the use of the personal in pursuing the political raised its own set of concerns. Its effects can be exclusionary, some argued, while others said a primarily personal identification with a political issue makes rational...
"There is no single reason why more women are not tenured: after all, women have only been recognized as thinking, rational subjects for about 150 years," Schor says. "Change comes slowly, but it does come."