Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no American leadership for world freedom, because there is no press leadership. Popular demand breeds leadership. Popular demand is only whipped into articulation by a flaming press. Where are the volcanic thunderers of the press? William Randolph Hearst was damned, but he stirred the masses. Today we have a world crisis, but what American press stirs anything? The New York Times and the Washington Post are churchly papers, but what is their boiling point? No smoking anger ever billows from their pages. We are witnessing in these late years the most ghastly inhumanities; in the face of them...
...Weak. When Ben Youssef was reestablished last November on his throne as Mohammed V, the women of Morocco were sufficiently organized to demand their rewards: the right to vote, the right to join unions, the right to better schooling for their children. Some even went so far as to demand a fairer deal in marital matters. As one explained, "Although we cannot be against polygamy, for Allah decreed it, at least the Koran decrees that a man can take [four] wives only if he treats them equally." But the Sultan's daughter, who lives in a palace which...
Ultimately, Buber applies the I -Thou idea to man's meeting with God, whom he calls the "Eternal Thou." This confrontation, says Philosopher Friedman, is "perhaps best understood from the nature of the demand which one person makes on another if the two of them really meet . . . If you are to meet me, you must become as much of a person as I am . . . In order to remain open to God [man] must change in his whole being...
...Each concert now has to be given twice to meet the demand-and it looks as if next year the programs will have to be played three times...
...cream from the coffee cups. Now, everywhere, jukeboxes are going full blast. Vienna has 400, all bought during the past 14 months, the rest of the country has 300 more, and jukebox salesmen (one of whom is a count, of course) report that they cannot keep up with growing demand...