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To be a New Hollywood director was to flirt with hubris.
Best of all, though, I avoid the hubris of pushing my ideas of appropriate formality on others, even those who agree with me.
It is that hubris, that 'this conversation is SO important it cannot wait for a less bothersome venue' characteristic of public cellular intercourse."
Economists are as guilty of this hubris as are members of any discipline: There's the Fischer Effect, the Sharpe Ratio, the Miller-Modigliani Theorem, Tobin's Q, the Laffer Curve (the only one in which the name helps characterize the discovery), and the greatest of them all, Pareto Optimality.
Floyd is making me believe more strongly in a Divine Power: From the moment yesterday that I professed to you my belief that acts of God are now invariably overhyped, this one began heading directly toward metropolitan New York--toward me, I'm thinking, and my flip, callow hubris.