Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living standards of poor and working people and only secondarily upon landlords and hapless local governments--while the profits of large banks and corporations are safeguarded at all (social) costs. Such a failure to target corporate profit leads only to a good deal of handwringing about "complexities" and to shallow, ideological hopes for improvement. Each of us grasps the deeper reality when she will, usually after further study and some kind of political involvement on behalf of economic justice. Housing--and feeding and clothing-- for profit makes no sense...
...faculty's reaction to the occupation suddenly showed Marglin how hypocritical and shallow the University could be, adding to his political discontent. But Marglin was a radical without radical economics--he had no alternatives to neoclassical theory to offer, and felt he "couldn't reject the only thing I had." IN 1969, one graduate student asked him. "How come if you're as radical as all this, you're doing all this neoclassical crap?" He answered. "If all you can do is fiddle while Rome is burning, then you fiddle." Two years later, the same grad student heard Marglin speak...
...issues chewed up before he introduced them. He forces critics and audiences to encounter that rarity in the art, reorientation. A successful movie like Amarcord or Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore depends on preconceptions of society, asking the audience to consider its extraordinary perspective. These movies are not shallow, but neither are they active challengers of prescribed notions. They expand rather than disrupt, playing off what we already believe. Antonioni hopes he can make us forget, at least for the moment...
Rent control is a complex issue, one that is hard to generalize about except in a shallow, ideological way. The fact that rent control as it is presently administered probably contributes to housing deterioration does negate the need for some form of rent control to restrain rent inflation in a tight housing market. With the present rent control law, however, rents will rarely keep pace with inflation, and to expect landlords to permanently absorb the difference is naive. In the present situation, rent control may just be a case of pay now (higher rents) or pay later (new taxes...
...courses or introductions, or even generalize about their field. This gap has traditionally been filled by making the non-credit tutorials treat an historical author--more a formal solution than a real one, as the non-credit courses rarely cover more than one book, and that in a rather shallow manner. Next year the tutorials will be for half-credit--a welcome change, but still unlikely to fill the need for a general background to philosophical study...