Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spenglerians, the "economic" and man-made laws worshiped by most modern historians, Western Man must submit once more to the Law of God. "In appealing to the Law of God, a human soul has to abandon certainty in order to embrace Hope and Fear . . . A human soul is apt to find in this what it brings to it . . . The Law of God is freedom itself, under a more illuminating name...
...time a child is nine or ten, he is apt to find these shows "too babyish" for his more sophisticated taste and will turn to space serials, westerns or the shows borrowed from the comic strips, e.g., Superman and Joe Palooka. Today's children get a great amount of their TV entertainment from the old movies that enchanted their parents when they were moppets: most kid shows include a few reels of ancient Charlie Chase comedies or animated cartoons that date back to the 1920s. One cartoon series, Crusader Rabbit, was made especially...
...than the traditional birthday party-fund raising celebration. Discussion brought forth the idea of attempting to center the world's attention on the free and just use of knowledge. It was a noble idea and a difficult task. Ironically, the Committee was afraid its scheme would no longer prove apt by 1954. Nevertheless, it adopted the ponderous phrase, "man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof" and began planning to unite the world behind this slogan...
...foreign policy. Now the capacity to decide is not a common attribute of mankind. It becomes increasingly rare as the difficulty of the problems increases. The choice becomes one between courses all of which are hard and dangerous. The "right" one, if there is a right one, is quite apt to be the most immediately difficult one. There are always persuasive advocates of opposing courses. "On the one hand" balances "on the other." The problem itself becomes the enemy...
...years the Federal Trade Commission has tried snuffing out misleading cigarette ads as often as they appear. But by the time a cease-and-desist order can be issued, the company in question is apt to be off on another tack. Last week the FTC attempted to bring the industry into line all at once by issuing a new set of "suggested" rules for cigarette-ad copy. In view of recent studies linking cigarettes to cancer and heart trouble, FTC thought that the time had come to guard the public from misleading...