Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auctioneer rang through the gilded, tapestried halls of Cairo's Kubbeh Palace last week, sounding the end of one of the most expensive and generally useless collections of gimcrackery ever assembled. Like a royal pack rat, ex-King Farouk had cached everything he could beg, buy and demand-tiny telescopes with diamond sprays, priceless relics of Pharaonic culture, a 100blade knife, an outstanding coin collection, a Nazi marshal's gaudy baton. Egypt's revolutionary regime was putting all of it-treasure and trash-on the block in a six-week sale. It was the biggest mass merchandising...
What is the solution? Suggests Author Gibbings: Let the householder demand a home that expresses his own tastes. What is needed is "the remembrance of a living room filled with warmth and comfort, a bedroom that was enfolding and secure, the touch of a baluster, the morning light in the window...
...free society a man can have no duty which is not consonant with the respect which is due him as a moral agent. We can demand only what we can demand morally. Thus we cannot ask a man to give his life, for such an obligation cannot be defined. But we can ask a man to risk his life. And we do in time of war. Similarly, we cannot ask a man to establish his own guilt. But we can ask that he risk trial. And we can ask an innocent man to risk judicial error...
...best we can say, then, is that the Fifth Amendment establishes a principle defining explicitly the limits within which the law can make a demand on a guilty man consonant with his dignity as a free agent; and that our system of trials, investigations, provision for appeal and redress, etc. must be constantly revised to make justice more common and injustice more easily rectified. Robert E. Gahringer (Ph.D...
...Monday evening the Council had decided to postpone approval of the association until it had time to confer with Dean Watson and Taffrail members about the compulsory clauses. During the past week the Taffrail Club altered their rules in order to comply with a Council and Dean's Office demand, made Wednesday, that changes in the constitution be made if the Club wished to be recognized by the University...