Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most goods at the lowest prices and forcing even them to keep reinvesting their profits in new products or better operating methods if they want to stay ahead of their rivals. As a result, production keeps rising, pulling up wages ("The liberal reward of labor . . . is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth") and distributing to everyone more of "the necessaries, conveniences and amusements of human life...
...BENEFITS. The city has been equally generous with the public employees who provide these services. Although the population of New York has declined slightly over the past ten years, to 7.8 million, the city work force had grown by 37% to 338,000. The figures are approximate, since a symptom of the city's difficulties is that its various bureaucracies cannot agree on whom to count on the payroll. The work force, moreover, has increased unevenly. The line agencies-police, firemen, sanitation men-declined slightly in the past decade. The agencies involved in helping the poor were enlarged...
...providing "brotherly help" on an engineering project. The "bad guy" is a son of the exploiting class, "pretentious, selfish and foreign to our country." The fact that he operates as "eminence grise" of various literary and political circles is not "an indication of exceptional gifts, but rather a symptom of an egoistic character, in his case almost innate." Why almost? Isn't it obvious since we learn later that his grandfather's real name was Bergmann! (The latter arrived poor from Galicia and within five years owned already all the pubs and breweries in town!) In a style reminiscent...
...lair near the university on the Upper West Side, Enderby is soon a man much bemused and beleaguered by moralists and behaviorists. In vain he declares that art-even execrable art-is neutral. Loathing the movie more than anyone, he sees it not as a cause but as a symptom of sin. "You ignore art as so much unnecessary garbage," he howls at his tormentors, "or you blame it for your own crimes." Even members of Enderby's creative writing class see him as a "misleading reactionary bastard." He has failed, it appears, to see merit in their "free...
...cannot promise to give students "earthy vocational skills." What is more important than reconciling the disappointed college-graduate job-seeker to employment below his station is the "question of how we can take advantage of this great ability to educate people, how we can recognize this as a symptom of success," Fisher says. "The forces we're talking about are much greater than the recession. They're secular...