Word: co-existence
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...such a career, there co-exist two standards of achievement: (1) a striving to surpass the best work done in a field, and (2) a working measure, seeking patiently to surpass oneself. The first suggests a goal (ill-defined, but alluring), the second a method of operation. The fairly common case where ambition is unbounded, but also unsure of how to proceed (lacking the second standard of achievement), produces a sense of frustration, which can become an excuse either for not trying at all or for finally accepting the mechanical comforts of the course system...
...these kinds of people and mice co-exist in the CRIMSON. Add the candidates who came last night, plus the candidates who will come tonight, include free beer, and you will have another example of the comforting and comfortable kind of chaos which marks the beginning of any crime-comp...
...Community of the sort that Under-secretary Dillon once spoke of. But this measure would be of highly doubtful value; economic integration is by no means always a good thing, and before acting the Administration should wait for an emergency situation that proves that the two blocs indeed cannot co-exist...
...seen as a linear, irrversible movement, and is therefore opposed to the deeply-rooted belief of eastern religions in a cyclical theory of change in human experience. Further, can science, which has grown up in the Christian notion of love for the whole material world as God's Creation, co-exist with the eastern religious view that the visible world is an illusion...
...assumptions co-exist, rather awkwardly, in the General's mind. There is first an optimistic postulate according to which the French nation, underneath all its divisions, still possesses a dormant general will which could be aroused by a dynamic and stable government. There is also the pessimistic idea that the divisions of the electorate are here to stay, that no constitutional trickery could erase them, and consequently that the Executive will be strong only if it is removed from intimate contact with an electorate and a Parliament which remain unable to produce a coherent majority...