Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through trial and error (with plenty of both), has developed a remarkable system of self-government, comprised of hard rules and of a hard breed of men who, however else they may differ, live by their rules. The five top leaders of the House have only one thing in common. They can all say with Speaker Sam Rayburn: "I love this House. It is my life." Through the Big Five, both in their personalities and their positions, the House can best be understood...
...addition, they met with small groups of House members at dinners and gave talks in the Junior Common Room. Although the program for Behrman's visit has not been definitely worked out, it is assumed that it will follow last year's pattern...
...much in common. Each was a native Alabaman. Each worked his way through school. They met and became friends at the University of Alabama law school in the early 1940s. Each served in World War II and came home with decorations. Each became a judge. And it was in that capacity, somehow symbolic of the stresses under which the law has come in the South, that U.S. District Judge Frank Minis Johnson Jr. in Montgomery last week ordered Alabama Circuit Judge George Corley Wallace to show cause "if any there be" why he should not be punished for contempt...
...last novel was The Captive and the Free. It is unmistakably incomplete, but unmistakably Cary. What he said in it, imperfectly through his pain, is that some people are larger than life and will not or cannot be bound by common constraints. These are the free; those who run with the herd are captives. And Cary also said that there is more than one road to God, though no road is easy...
...added his of a land "where differences in color and race are not falsely denied but make a competition in being the best . . . where nobility is not mere respectability and virtue does not produce a snigger; where the clang of work and the clamor of play attest to the common health; where enemies cannot reach us because our merit, and not our guns or our propaganda, has won the world to our side...