Word: transgressiveness
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...feed their pets better than the losers can feed their children," and if left to itself, "would sweep away all other values, and establish a vending machine society." Yet the market also permits decentralization of management, encourages experimentation and innovation, and limits the power of the state to transgress on personal freedoms; by doing so, it provides incentives for work and massive production that no other system can match. Indeed, Okun asserts, "any realistic version of American socialism ... would achieve only a small improvement in equality at the expense of a significant worsening of efficiency...
...strident urgency? "Election Day: November 1968," it blurts, and in the process hints to us that this is no mere sexual elbow-ribbing we are about to witness, but a story, an episode, an adventure that promises to make some comment on the more serious, more profound events that transgress in executive corridors and legislative cloakrooms...
...Twelfth Night is not without its weaknesses, they more often come from too much rather than too little effort--words which are almost too erudite in deliverance and grimaces which are too rubbery. Yet even these faults deserve to be forgiven, for, as the Clown would say, sins that transgress are patched with virtue...
...psychiatrists, who taught him to probe and analyze. Then, during World War II, he learned an unforgettable lesson when Navy shipmates tried to rescue some drifting Japanese sailors and were riddled by Japanese gunfire. "You've got to have a society," Sprague says now, "in which people who transgress will be caught and punished." Even after the Supreme Court's ban on the death penalty, he continues to support it, and last week the Philadelphia D.A.'s office proposed amendments to state law that they hope will permit executions for certain crimes...
Many economists and businessmen favor a system of voluntary wage-price guidelines, such as existed with varying success during the Kennedy-Johnson years. Companies and unions would probably be reluctant to transgress these guidelines, if for no other reason than that the Government, having set a precedent for peacetime controls, could always go back to them. Says Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "Things will never be the same again. Even after controls are lifted, there will be the threat of their reimposition. As Al Capone put it: 'You can get so much farther...