Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Avon Rent-A-Car in Los Angeles offers customers some of the world's classiest autos, including Rolls-Royces, Porsches and BMWs. Naturally, the company also expects its clients to have some class and certainly to be above petty vandalism. But Avon President Stuart Silver reports that more than half of last year's 12,000 rentals came back without the rear license-plate frame. The frames have Avon Rent-a-Car printed on them, and Silver reasons that customers who shell out $350 a day for a Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible "want everybody to think it's their...
Even when feminists deign to consider the classic thinkers of other social sciences, their arrogance is staggering, Susan Okin, for instance, in Women in Western Political Thought, describes John Stuart Mill as a "far-thinking feminist" but a limited thinker. Okin claims that Mill failed to consider adequately life outside the structure of the family. Fortunately feminist thinkers have transcended Mill's intellectual limitations...
...sees people being guided by reason and always able to improve things. To put it another way, the unconstrained see human beings as perfectible, the constrained as forever flawed. The constrained vision, as expressed by Adam Smith or Alexander Hamilton, seeks trade-offs; the unconstrained vision, as in John Stuart Mill or Thomas Jefferson, seeks solutions. "The constrained vision is a tragic vision of the human condition," Sowell writes. "The unconstrained vision is a moral vision of human intentions...
Sowell claims to be describing both conflicting visions impartially, to be making no judgment on their comparative merits, but somehow the quasi-liberal unconstrained vision often seems to lead to positions that few liberals would accept as their own. Sowell cites John Stuart Mill's admiration for "the most cultivated intellects" to suggest that the unconstrained are elitist, and hypocrites as well. "It is consistent for the unconstrained vision to promote equalitarian ends by unequalitarian means," he writes, "given the great differences between those whom Mill called 'the wisest and best' and those who have not yet reached that intellectual...
Some Kind of Wonderful rather too starkly exhibits Hughes' standard procedure. It has one of his attractive misfits, shy, sensitive Keith (Eric Stoltz) obsessively trying to steal popular, vapid Amanda (Lea Thompson) away from her rich, bullying boyfriend. Keith does not notice that his lifelong best buddy, Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson, who is fine), has, for all her tomboyish ways, grown into a much more interesting and sexy girl than Amanda. Or that she truly loves him. That recognition is for the last minute, and it teaches Keith, Amanda and the whole school lessons in personal integrity...