61. Of course, it would be as dangerous to overreact to history by
concluding that the majority must now be wrong about expansion as
it would be to re-enact the response that greeted the suggestion
that the continents had drifted.
62. While the fact of this consumer revolution is hardly in doubt,
three key questions remain: who were the consumers? What were
their motives? And what were the effect of the new demand for
luxuries?
63. Although it has been possible to infer from the goods and
services actually produced what manufacturers and servicing trades
thought their customers wanted, only a study of relevant personal
documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise
picture of who wanted what.
64. With respect to their reasons for immigrating, Grassy does not
deny their frequently noted fact that some of the immigrants of
the 1630’s, most notably the organizers and clergy, advanced
religious explanations for departure, but he finds that such
explanations usually assumed primacy only in retrospect.
65. If we take the age-and sex-specific unemployment rates that
existed in 1956 (when the overall unemployment rate was 4.1
percent) and weight them by the age- and sex-specific shares of
the labor force that prevail currently, the overall unemployment
rate becomes 5 percent.
66. He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a “ step
up” toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow
up: money and power.
67. Unless productivity growth is unexpectedly large, however, the
expansion of real output must eventually begin to slow down to the
economy’s larger run growth potential if generalized demand
pressures on prices are to be avoided.
68. However, when investment flows primarily in one direction, as
it generally does from industrial to developing countries, the
seemingly reciprocal source-based restrictions produce revenue
sacrifices primarily by the state receiving most of the foreign
investment and producing most of the income—namely ,the developing
country partner.
69. The pursuit of private interests with as little interference
as possible from government was seen as the road to human
happiness and progress rather than the public obligation and
involvement in the collective community that emphasized by the
Greeks.
70. The defense lawyer relied on long-standing principles
governing the conduct of prosecuting attorneys: as quasi-judicial
officers of the court they are under a duty not to prejudice a
party’s case through overzealous prosecution or to detract from
the impartiality of courtroom atmosphere.
71. No prudent person dared to act on the assumption that, when
the continent was settled, one government could include the whole;
and when the vast expense broke up, as seemed inevitable, into a
collection of separate nations, only discord, antagonism, and wars
could be expected.
72. If they were right in thinking that the next necessity in
human progress was to lift the average person upon an intellectual
and social level with the most favored, they stood at least three
generations nearer than Europe to that goal.
73. Somehow he knows that if our huckstering civilization did not
at every moment violate the eternal fitness of things, the poet’s
song would have been given to the world, and the poet would have
been cared for by the whole human brotherhood, as any man should
be who does the duty that every man owes it.
74. The instinctive sense of the dishonor which money-purchase
does to art is so strong that sometimes a man of letters who can
pay his way otherwise refuses pay for his work, as Lord Byron did,
for a while, from a noble pride, and as Count Tolstoy has tried to
do, from a noble conscience.
75. Perhaps he believed that he could not criticize American
foreign policy without endangering the support for civil rights
that he had won from the federal government.
76. Abraham Lincoln, who presided in his stone temple on August
28, 1963 above the children of the slaves he emancipated (解放), may
have used just the right words to sum up the general reaction to
the Negroes’ massive march on Washington.
77. In the Warren Court era, voters asked the Court to pass on
issues concerning the size and shape of electoral districts,
partly out of desperation because no other branch of government
offered relief, and partly out of hope that the Court would
reexamine old decisions in this area as it had in others, looking
at basic constitutional principles in the light of modern living
conditions.
78. Some even argue plausibly that this weakness may be
irremediable : in any society that, like a capitalist society,
seeks to become ever wealthier in material terms disproportionate
rewards are bound to flow to the people who are instrumental in
producing the increase in its wealth.
79. This doctrine has broadened the application of the Fourteenth
Amendment to other, nonracial forms of discrimination, for while
some justices have refused to find any legislative classification
other than race to be constitutionally disfavored, most have been
receptive to arguments that at least some nonracial
discriminations, sexual discrimination in particular, are
“suspect” and deserve this heightened scrutiny by the courts.
80. But as cameras become more sophisticated, more automated, some
photographers are tempted to disarm themselves or to suggest that
they are not really armed, preferring to submit themselves to the
limits imposed by premodern camera technology because a cruder,
less high-powered machine is thought to give more interesting or
emotive results, to have more room for creative accident.