Word: dame
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University of Notre Dame President the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia: "The nuclear threat is indeed the greatest moral problem of all times. For Theodore Hesburgh the years of the nuclear age, we humans have been painting ourselves into a corner. As Albert Einstein said, 'The splitting of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.' Perhaps the worst attitude is to say that nothing can be done about it, that tensions between nations cannot be relieved, that the ultimate destiny of all that...
...commencement sampler: Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.: "The U.S. has a special role to play in this dangerously disturbed and divided world, a role based on power and the responsible use of power-superpower, to be more precise, and the super responsibilities that go with it. The burden that this places upon Americans is enormous, and it is not surprising that you have known moments of self-doubt and withdrawal. The health and vitality of our system and way of life are, ultimately, in your hands...
...press conference's organizers do not know how many people will attend the conference especially since it is scheduled at the dame time as Mother Teresa's Class Day speech in front of John Harvard's statue...
...face of it, Susan Montgomery Williams of Fresno, Calif., Willie Hollingsworth of Freeport, N.Y., and the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, 64, president of the University of Notre Dame, would not appear to have a lot in common. But this year they are all set to be included in that uncommon nominator, the Guinness Book of World Records: Williams for blowing the largest bubble-gum bubble (19¼ in.), Hollingsworth for balancing a milk bottle on his head while walking 18½ miles (a truly dying art), and Father Hesburgh for accumulating more honorary degrees than anyone else ever has. Next...
...cannot recommend it strongly enough for any one who seeks answers to big questions. You may attack his methodology, his technique, his conclusions--but at least he's in the right goddam field. You cannot attack his relevance. His subject matter is the sacred--and that's pretty dame important. The evolution of consciousness is behind all forms of human endeavour and now that we are aware of this evolution, we become part of the process--we take, part in the making of the future...