Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Still, in the early centuries following that birth, giving was relatively simple. It meant giving up, a giving away of one's self or one's worldly goods in imitation of Christ. The matter grew more complex under the Protestant ethic, when gifts were bestowed as a reward or incentive for good behavior. St. Nick was long depicted as a scrawny saint who Carried presents in one hand and birch rods in the other. But the art of giving grows most difficult in this permanent holiday age of affluence, when, in the words of Poet Howard Nemerov, Santa...
...than a breadbox. On the side, he is a TV personality, a lecturer, and a writer of sorts. Also a show-biz nut, a pal of stars, a party trooper and a shameless punster. But he cleverly directs all these other activities toward the promotion of his product, the reward for which would fill a large breadbox with something like $375,000 a year...
...dubbed Arkansas the "Wonder State" and later more modestly renamed it the "Land of Opportunity," by the early '40s the brightest opportunity for young people moving off the farms lay in a one-way ticket to another state. Those who managed to get a good education found little reward for their learning back home; a competent technician could ask higher wages within half a day's bus ride in almost any direction. State government was hampered at every level by an anachronistic constitution enacted in 1874, which, as Arkansans point out, was "two years before Custer...
...Shut Up!" His reward was the foreign secretaryship, which he had long coveted. Brown exchanged portfolios with Michael Stewart, who in his nearly two years as Foreign Secretary proved a tough and able diplomat, notably in supporting the U.S. position in Viet Nam against internal Labor Party criticism. Brown has not been on the job long enough to produce any big successes, but he is steadily gaining influence in the Wilson Cabinet. Long the most enthusiastic Laborite supporter of Britain's joining Europe, Brown persuaded an initially reluctant Wilson that it was time to knock on the Common Market...
According to Mumford, the spread of science and technology is creating a "universal, but inadequate society," what he terms the "Mega-Machine." Unlike previous systems of oppression, the Mega-Machine is not based upon a principle of punishment, but on the contrary idea of reward...