Word: differences
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propositions but is a movement of the whole self to the daily challenge of actual human relations." True to the essence of Hinduism, he sees many ways to God. "The truth which is the kernel of every religion is one and the same; doctrines, however, differ considerably since they are the applications of the truth to the human situation . . . All are necessarily inadequate and if taken too literally lead to error. Every formula, every attempt to enclose reality within words and concepts, which is true within limits and is adapted to the time and occasion, will serve as a support...
...plays follow this form so closely that they might seem a bit tedious. (The attractive landlady is in both plays an almost incredible emblem of self-sufficiency.) But since the two central figures of each play differ so in personality, both expositions of the problem are interesting and seem to have a wide and general significance. In the first play, Margaret Leighton plays a sexually-repressed model, statuesque and "cut out of ice"; in the other she is again sexually repressed, but this time as the whimpering invalid daughter of a domineering mother. Eric Portman is in both cases sexually...
While not necessarily an advocate of "Republican prosperity" as opposed to "Democratic prosperity," I still must beg to differ with your economic views as propounded in your editorial of September 28. The writer, in pointing out the very true fact that the National Income or Gross National Product is made larger through debt financing, uses this fact to imply that: 1) our prosperity is a mirage; 2) the Republicans are to blame for the debt; and 3) that the Republicans are guilty of deceit in saying that this is an era of unmatched economic well-being. With these implications...
Perhaps the most profound change has been sociological. "The younger people differ from their elders in the way they act and the way they think," Reischauer comments. "They are more western, more modernized, in their outlook." One example of this has been the virtual disappearance from the cities of the kimono in favor of more western-like dress...
...Said aman Lord Merthyr of an-man Lord Faringdon, an Etonian like himself: "It is rather sad to think that the noble Lord and I should have been educated in the same place, and at the same time, and that 40 years later we should come here to differ upon this question...