Word: spenglerism
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...researcher, Armando Garsd, claimed this week that Professor of Environmental Health John D. Spengler removed him from an energy study shortly after he pointed out errors in a separate federal air pollution study that Spengler co-authored...
...complaint charges that Spengler dismissed him from the energy study, sponsored by two Spanish electric companies, because Garsd complained that the EEPC was diverting their money from the project...
Garsd's complaint discussed only the Spanish study. But this week he said Spengler may also have wished to dismiss him because he questioned the air pollution figures...
Some theses simply display traits which are continued in later life. Henry A. Kissinger '50 wrote "Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee, and Kant." Not known for his brevity, Kissinger's thesis was 388 pages even after sections had been omitted. He wrote, "The length is due to the fact that I did not realize the implications of the subject when I started work on this thesis." The Government Department thereafter instituted a 120-page limit for senior theses, and students are expected to consider all of the implications of a subject before sitting down at the typewriter...
...hands of a seasoned laborer, Stammer remembered, but he was also a person of some refinement. He enjoyed having her play the piano for him, and he liked reading books on history and philosophy, metaphysics and chemistry. Among his favorites was The Decline of the West, written by Oswald Spengler. For the most part, Stammer reported, her guest remained quiet. "Sometimes," she recalled, "he went out of the house for six, seven hours at a time. I think he just went walking." The Stammers finally separated themselves from their increasingly unwanted guest in 1974. Moving to a small house...