Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year passes, and in the first creative act of his life, Mr. Stone suggests to the head of his firm a scheme for keeping in touch with retired employees, sending the more active ones to visit the bedridden with small gifts and words of cheer. He sees it simply as "protection for the old." But the company sees it as grand public relations and names it the "Knights Companion" scheme, putting Mr. Stone in charge...
...more concerned with the emaciated treasury of the Commonwealth. The voracious demand for both books immediately after the Commission announced its opinions has certainly not gone unnoticed at the nation's publishing houses. If these two threatened suppressions have been a test for a new revenue-raising scheme that might save Massachusetts yet from a higher income tax on the lottery, the test has succeeded. In the future, the Commission should be able to extract from myriad publishers and authors handsome fees for declaring their books obscene, indecent, and impure...
...increasing number of people with time on their hands. To do this we "need changes in the whole society: in its work, its political forms and its cultural styles." Such talk is no less revolutionary than what Goodman wants--utopian reforms. Here Riesman's thinking encounters difficulties. Any scheme for utopia requires a comprehensive view of man; otherwise large-scale social reform has no coherence or legitimacy. But, unlike the 18th century ideologues, Riesman has no driving metaphysic; his approach is "one of seeing rather than doing." To a pragmatist, interested in the implementation of ideas, Riesman's detachment would...
...objections might lose some of their fore. But the MDC had not yet taken an "origin and destination" survey of the Drive's traffic, and has little idea of the effect of extending the Massachusetts Turnpike. It does not seem to have considered less radical alternatives to the underpass scheme, such as the relatively inexpensive system of traffic lights proposed by the Cambridge Planning Board. Even the most optimistic of experts--the MDC's consulting engineers--do not claim that underpasses alone will solve Mem Drive's traffic problems; only "creating matching capacities" along the entire Drive (i.e., widening...
...considered, we are confident that the religious leaders of our country will find none of these pitfalls insurmountable. No scheme of any grandeur is devoid of kinks which must be worked out by sober, intelligent minds. Jehova's monument will demonstrate that the true image of America, reflected in its capital, is that of, in the words of our President, "a good and God-fearing people...