Word: rigorousity
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This discrepancy between supply and demand becomes considerably more reasonable when only the qualified applicants are concerned. Publishing requires rare combination of business acumen and the capacity for discriminating judgment on the excellence of writers and mere bibliophiles. Its standards are high and rigorous. It is in that group of...
As an attack on loose thinking parading as profundity, on hollow rhetoric offered as a guide to social action, on fakes, phonies, pomposities, stuffed shirts, pedants and wordmongers in general, The Tyranny of Words will to most readers make tonic good sense. But, as with most of Stuart Chase'...
The reason that Edward Steichen retired last week was that all this had not been enough for him. To rigorous lovers of photography as an important art, Steichen's achievement, measured against his gifts and his opportunities, was not quite enough either. When Steichen told old Photographer Alfred Stieglitz...
"In the present situation honest economists do not make forecasts of business activity and if they do intelligent businessmen do not take them seriously. . . . This country is in thoroughly rotten shape. It is sick to the core with economic disorders and political diseases. In essence they are the result of...
The progress of our industrialized civilization depends not only on the ingenuity of our engineers in the conception of new methods for supplying our material needs, but also on their ability to carry out ideas in actual practice. This necessitates the use of a variety of materials for the construction...