Word: utilitarian
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...Mafia or patent medicine." The idea of arranging a business contract between artist, dealer and buyer offends Mr. Feild ("how can you price intrinsic value?"). A lifelong socialist, Mr. Feild maintains the ancient craft of picture-making is nearly impossible in a capitalist economy, which judges all objects on utilitarian standards...
...reorganization of foreign aid that would create a military aid setup to underwrite the Nixon Doctrine while turning economic development funds over to a new International Development Corporation. Closely tailored to the recommendations of a presidential commission headed by Rudolph Peterson, the plan could result in a more streamlined, utilitarian foreign aid program that would strengthen allies-militarily and economically-with limited American involvement. The reorganization would...
...Even if behavioral studies could not prove that individual Negroes are harmed by being denied access to public facilities, reasons Wilson, he would still want them to have that access. Violence and obscenity are moral issues, he believes, and judgments about them must rest on political and philosophical, not utilitarian considerations...
There is something touching in the process by which purely utilitarian things, such as bridges, Model Ts and old penny bubble-gum machines, become vaguely mythical collectors' items. Last week in Britain, the new London Bridge, an unprepossessing rig of steel and concrete, was partially opened, but it was merely a means of getting from one side of the Thames to the other. However authentic the reconstruction in Arizona, the old bridge has vanished; monuments cannot be transplanted. London Bridge without London is, after all, not London Bridge. How does Cochise greet Charles Dickens...
...this point, the question becomes obvious: what is the value of a "humanistic" society when it administers justice in a utilitarian fashion? The cynic's-answer, possibly the most relevant, is that we have the best society and best university to be hoped for at this particular moment in time...