Word: aikens
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...speech of the night before, gushed a remarkable torrent of praise. Even Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright. who had often delighted in baiting Dulles, called the revised aid program "wise and imaginative." As Dulles flushed redder than his wine-colored tie, Vermont's Republican George Aiken topped it all off. "I want to compliment you." he said, "on the compliments you have received...
...South Dakota's Karl Mundt, Minnesota's Edward Thye and New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, plus a dozen Ikemen: Vermont's George Aiken, Colorado's Gordon Allott, Connecticut's Prescott Bush, Kansas' Frank Carlson, New Jersey's Clifford Case and Alexander Smith, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, New York's Irving Ives and Jacob Javits, Utah's Arthur Watkins and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley...
...their statements are made possible only by interpreting the sixty percent agreement that "some form of religious orientation...is required for a fully mature philosophy of life,"(from the Council report) to mean a pilgrimage en masse to houses of worship and a dynamic religious rebirth. Even H.D. Aiken might go along with such a vaguely all-inclusive phrasing as "some form of religious orientation." From many such statements as "increased concern over the ultimate meaning of life" equated with manifestations of religious zeal of the Norman Vincent Peale variety, the article derives its resounding afflrmations about religion bursting...
...Aiken analyzed Perry as a "Moral Economist," discussing the ethical aspects of his thought. Aiken said that to Perry "morality was an economy of interest rather than the greatest means to the greatest number...
Perry was placed by Aiken on equal footing with John Dewey as "the most important American liberal philosophers," in spite of their differences and Dewey's comparatively greater popularity...