Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to-as if it were a bad habit. Scrambled across their work as guidance for the public is the new and purgative graffito: "Nothing makes sense." The panicked outrage once reserved for those moments when all the reasons for living seem to fall apart has become a truism of everyday life. The list of anti-intellectual intellectuals, which used to begin and end with Hemingway, now runs...
...Corporation voted against the first two Campaign GM resolutions and abstained on the third. However, as the Austin Committee noted in its report last March, "It is a truism in the financial world that abstention in a proxy contest is a vote for management...
Precisely because textbook publishers now offer so many alternative methods, the old fuss and fury over reading techniques may be a thing of the past. But the familiar truism remains: for most children, learning in school depends primarily on the caliber of the teacher. Perhaps the greatest danger in the new wealth of reading materials is that it will tempt some schools to spend money on flashy hardware and neglect the job of teaching teachers how to use it effectively...
...When the University is already a stockholder, it need not remain passive in the face of substantial evidence thatthe company is acting in an antisocial way. That is to say, once the University has taken a particular corporate plunge, choice in a sense becomes inescapable; for it is a truism in the financial world that abstention in a proxy contest is a vote for the management...
THAT Wall Street must undergo fundamental reforms if it is to survive as the securities-trading capital is almost universally accepted. Woe to him, however, who tries to translate broad truism into specific truth. Robert Haack, president of the New York Stock Exchange, discovered the danger last week when he proposed some basic revisions in exchange rules. Though some members supported him, many reacted as if he were ordering tumbrels to convey them to the guillotine. Among the insults flung at him were "panderer," "out of his mind" and "he makes me sick." Bernard Lasker, chairman of the N.Y.S.E. board...