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...effective persuasion and show. We never do know who they are. They hint at the underside of the self-made man and self-reliance, the freedom to become whatever others will believe. As they prey on others, they illustrate not what energy and diligence but what spunk and audacity wiE do in a protean society. The jack of all trades becomes the shape-shifting diddler, a reminder of how many occupations can be made to turn on the evasion of work. The cultural promise that one can make a self by shrewdness and diligence has, then, in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: High Diddle-Diddling | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...patience with historians who insist that "objective reality" exist, that it alone determines human action, and that if only we can count all railroad ties and piglets in a country we shall know what it is. "Numerology" is what he calls the most zealous, usually American, attempts to demonstrate wie es eigentlich gewesen war. Not surprisingly there are those who consider his views of the past fruitless or even anarchic...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Alan Heimert: The 'Idea' at Eliot House | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...with historians who insist that "objective reality" exists, that it alone determines human action, and that if only we can count all the railroad ties and piglets in a country we shall know what it is. "Numerology" is what he calls the most zealous, usually American, attempts to demonstrate wie es eigentlich gewesen war. Not surprisingly there are those who consider his view of the past fruitless or even anarchic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alan E. Heimert | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Though they have traditionally been noted for their frugality and discipline, West Germans today are grandly living, as they like to put it, wie Gott in Frankreich - like God in France. Wages are rising almost twice as fast as productivity, imports are climbing twice as fast as exports, and the government has been spending much more than it has collected in taxes. The cost of such xtravagance is West Germany's gaudi est inflation in 15 years. With consumer prices up almost 4% from a year ago, the German Hausfrau has to pay $1.08 for a dozen eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Sparkle Costs More | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...concert will close with Psalm 84, "Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen," by Heinrich Schutz...

Author: By Elinor Bachrach, | Title: Glee Club Set For Concert At Sanders | 8/16/1962 | See Source »

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