Word: refoundation
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...deathbed he said, without even bothering with emotion, that nothing in his life meant quite as much as those early years travelling around the world, that every thing after seemed a little pale--pleasantly, perhaps, but still lacking in something not easy to describe that couldn't be refound, though once, it seemed, it would never fade." And as he sat back down, the silence of the room, in the context of the school's year, spoke more for the experience of the International School of America than any words...
...people. "The potential of the work ethic as a positive force in American industry is extremely great," says Professor Wickham Skinner of the Harvard Business School. "We simply have to remove the roadblocks stopping individuals from gaining satisfaction on the job. The work ethic is just waiting to be refound...
...Refound Ancestors. The art that followed-nonobjective, nonemotional and nonutilitarian-was, and for the most part still is, anathema to the common man. To the suprematists, it was an epochal breakthrough, even though Malevich later recalled that he felt "a kind of timidity bordering on fear when I was called upon to leave the world of will and idea in which I had lived and worked; but the blissful feeling of liberating nonobjectivity drew me into the desert, where nothing is real but feeling...
...College chapters. The local groups wanted more independence; the national organization, more control. Throughout the 1890s' clubs were detaching themselves from the fraternity system. Porcellian and A.D., which had broken off from the Harvard chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, were joined by other final clubs. Another fraternity effort to refound Alpha Delta Phi terminated in the Phli and finally the Fly club...
Yesterday the last controls on consumer goods went the way of most war measures, and few mourned them. They seemed to be an unnecessary restraint in what passes, these days, for peace time. And business has so far reacted intelligently to its refound freedom...