Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every three Harvard alumni subscribes to the Bulletin. There's an axiom that another third are lost causes -- completely uninterested in the University--and that the other third are on the borderline--they could be wooed if only someone would. Not surprisingly, Bethell is hatching plans for a large-scale subscription drive which will start this spring. He plans to mail surveys to all alumni, hoping to find why those who don't subscribe don't. He also wants to boost the Bulletin's paltry advertising revenue, using information from the survey to make the magazine look attractive...
Citing St. Augustine's axiom, "War's aim is glorious peace," he noted that in Viet Nam the U.S. is seeking to create "an atmosphere in which resolution of our difficulties can be found off the battlefield." And, before a conservative audience, he urged the Republican Party to become "broader and more creative." He ventured that the old shibboleths of "big government" and the Communist conspiracy have outworn their meaning. Added Brooke: "There is an obligation to propose rather than primarily to oppose...
...shipshape. On the walls of his three-bedroom suite, the same one he had occupied after his gall-bladder surgery 57 weeks earlier, hung paintings of his birthplace, boyhood home and ranch, along with framed quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Harold Macmillan and the Roman consul Paulus, all upholding the axiom-one that is not writ large in Lyndon Johnson's copybook-that a leader who wastes too much time on his critics has little time left for leadership. Across Wisconsin Avenue, the lights were out and the Venetian blinds lowered to a uniform level in the National Institutes...
...Service as the nation's first official tourist bureau, the number of foreign visitors to America has more than doubled. This year 1,200,000 of them (excluding border crossers from Canada and Mexico) are busily proving for themselves the truth of Lord Bryce's 19th century axiom: "America excites an admiration which must be felt upon the spot to be understood...
...latest manifestations of the above axiom are Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Mike Nichols. And while the product should be seen as long as it exists, one can't avoid wishing that both director and property had never gone to Hollywood...