Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history of the Italian theatre in the last twenty years has been an endeavor to express the struggle between man's real nature and the conventions, or masks, as Pirandello expresses it, which bind and hem in man's individuality. Pirandello in Italy, Shaw in England, and O'Neill in America have given voice to this nameless longing for new ideals and for a new life in which man shall triumph over an artificial standard of morality and social conventions...
...said, "The President's insistence on the 'recommendation which is now before the Senate' with reference to the Permanent Court of International Justice is welcome, indeed, but it is to be regretted that he now attaches a further condition. The advisory opinions given by the Court do not bind any State; and I can see no reason for our putting a condition that the United States should not be bound by them...
...Hope To Bind Class Together...
...news from Geneva during the past two days has aroused the almost forgotten fears of those who were sanguine. It is difficult to understand the Japanese in their opposition to the proposed protocol of arbitration and security. At bottom their contention centers around the immigration question. Japan refuses to bind it self to accept a possible decision by the World Court that immigration is exclusively within another country's domestic jurisidiction. The clause to which she objects would outlaw a disputant country refusing to accept such decision. M. Adachi, speaking for Japan, charged the League with "proclaiming a state criminal...
...highest authority in finance in their respective countries, men of such prestige, experience and honor that their agreement upon the amount to be paid and upon a financial plan for working out the payments would be accepted throughout the world as the most authoritative expression obtainable? Governments need not bind themselves in advance to accept the recommendations. ... I have no doubt that distinguished Americans would be willing to serve on such a commission...