Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilson drove . . . through a magnificent reform program. . . . His accomplishments both at Princeton and Washington were great and enduring. Yet in both cases he drove so hard, so flatly refused to delegate authority, and broke with so many friends that when the inevitable reaction set in, he was unable to cope with the new situation. His refusal to compromise in the graduate college controversy was almost Princeton's undoing; his refusal to compromise in the fight . . . over the League of Nations was the nation's undoing. Both controversies assume the character and proportions of a Greek tragedy." That Wilsonian...
...Henry Wallace had taken over the editorship of the New Republic, Kingsley Martin had sent a routine congratulatory note and asked Wallace to come to England some time as his guest. When Wallace accepted, the "thing" had begun to grow. Martin had to turn over his own secretary to cope with the invitations for speeches; he assigned a special man to press relations...
...appropriations are part of the University's policy to get the overcrowded Houses "as livable as possible as quickly as possible," said the Provost, and are a part of the same program that is sponsoring 35 new tennis courts to cope with the current shortage of playing surfaces...
...think, precisely by facing this dilemma that we can begin to see, once again, why the church is necessary, and what it necessarily must be. The church on earth must be a church that can cope with history...
...does the church cope with history? . . . The first and everlasting mission of the church is to bring continuously the knowledge of God into the world and to bring the world to the knowledge of God. As men come to the knowledge of God, and especially as they come to the knowledge of God in communion with one another, they learn to distinguish ever more sharply between God's will and man's will, and they cope, powerfully and dramatically, with history...