Word: attainability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...points up once more that the British as a nation are aware of one great truth which we Americans prefer to ignore: that certain moral principles can and do transcend mere personal happiness. I don't want "popularity" and "happiness" first of all for my children; if they attain the moral stature I wish for them I know they will often be both unpopular and unhappy...
Martin Luther's commentary on Psalm 2:11 ("Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling") revealed the distance the father of the Reformation had come -and the end he hoped to attain. "As a young man I hated this verse for I did not hear with pleasure that God had to be feared . . . I did not know that fear had to be mixed with joy or hope . . . We who are Christians are not entirely fearful or entirely happy. Joy is joined with fear, hope with dread, laughter with tears, so that we may believe that we shall...
...R.A.F., he says, can never attain A-combat readiness unless men with broad operational flying experience take over, put the bureaucrats in their place, and restore the service to its World War II standing as Britain's prime striking force...
...defiance of man's fate. The real defeat was "having to accept one's destiny, one's place in the world, to feel shut up in a life there's no escaping, like a dog in a kennel." The drive to "at last attain something beyond, something outside himself" is Malraux's "warrant for release from man's estate." "If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?" demands Malraux...
...economics seem obvious or dated; his discourses on politics are marred by errors of a sort that never appeared in America Comes of Age. Yet, minor inaccuracies notwithstanding, he can hit off a brisk two-page thumbnail of F.D.R. with a degree of objectivity difficult for an American to attain. France's No. 1 living authority on the U.S. has written the sort of Socratic book about America that, he would argue, America itself cannot easily produce...