Word: axioms
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...sure from this moment on that we have the elementary guarantees of a firm government, a modern defense and a united nation." For the length of his rule at least, the country has come close to achieving these guarantees and perhaps to satisfying De Gaulle's own axiom: "France cannot be France without greatness...
...almost an axiom of the integration struggle in the South: wherever a city's newspapers have pitched in to help, wherever editors and publishers have worked to stretch the limits of local tolerance, there has been a minimum of violence. In St. Augustine, Fla., the Record is a modest little daily (circ. 7,000) with more modest ambitions. It has tried to ignore the South's biggest story, on the hopeful assumption that if nobody pays any attention, the race problem just might go away...
...ideal pops concert is played in a park, and its program is as light and harmless as a passing cloud-Gershwin, Sousa, Leroy Anderson. This follows the old axiom that serious music, like aged whisky, should be saved for cold winter nights.* But the music that Conductor Andre Kostelanetz chose to open the New York Philharmonic "Promenades" series last week had real substance-Shostakovich, Ravel, Alan Hovhaness...
...dull, dreary Republican race. It showed that there is still plenty of life in the Grand Old Party. To those Republicans who think there is no chance of beating Democrat Lyndon Johnson this year, Rocky demonstrated that "where there's life, there's hope" is more an axiom than a maxim. Above all, Rockefeller's Oregon win increased what has been called the "scatteration" of strength in the Republican presidential picture. And in so doing, it greatly increased the possibility that the so-called Republican kingmakers-the amalgam of corporation executives, party professionals and publishers-who have...
...Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Tories squeaked through a vote by a particularly thin margin, the old man comforted the younger: "In the House of Commons, one vote is enough." Last week Ted Heath, now President of the Board of Trade, had the uncomfortable opportunity to test that axiom. The Tories, who nowadays can usually muster a majority of 80 votes or so, just barely managed to survive a vote by the wafer-thin margin...