Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Kelley was an authority on psychological testing, the scheme has received widespread attention among various forward-thinking groups. One student in Kirkland House has proposed a Harvard-Radcliffe Young Eugenicists Club (abbreviated HRYEC) to subject the plan to serious study...
...have picked a more propitious moment to meet with Indian officials: the U.S. was about to offer $1 billion for basic development projects over the next two years if the other members of the "Aid to India Club," Britain, Canada, West Germany and Japan, matched the contribution. If the scheme materializes, Galbraith may be able to tackle a pet embassy project, building a nuclear power plant and a giant steel mill that would dwarf a similar, propaganda-packed Soviet showpiece...
...that make his History a continuously startling experience. So long as science and mythology are used as "a carriage-and-pair and not a one-horse shay," he sees no need to apologize. On a much more serious level. Toynbee admits to errors that are basic to his entire scheme. He admits that using Hellenic civilization as the model by which to judge the decline and fall of others is a mistake. It leads him, in fact, to recast his whole view on the development of the "higher religions." No longer do they result from an "encounter" between...
...years. In 1927 Corbu, with his cousin and partner Pierre Jeanneret, submitted a plan for the League of Nations. As he bitterly wrote of the incident later: "After 65 meetings of the jury in Geneva, the project of L-C and Pierre Jeanneret was the only one of 360 schemes (seven miles of plans) that received four votes out of nine. It was at this point that the delegate from Pans pointed out: 'This scheme has not been drawn in India ink. I insist it be disqualified, and it was." Huffed Corbu of his critics in those years: "Madmen...
...intellectual love affairs between autocrats of the salon and fust plain autocrats were tetchy. Voltaire, who hated oppression, was oppressively tightfisted with money. Indeed, he made himself a millionaire as a moneylender. As the house guest of Frederick the Great, Voltaire was caught out in a shady currency-smuggling scheme. Frederick, the ruthless practitioner of Realpolitik, was shocked at the low moral code of writers. "If your work deserves statues," he wrote, "your conduct merits chains." Voltaire wrote to friends: "The King is an exceptional man-very attractive at a distance." The pair resumed their friendship later, since Frederick...