Word: dimensional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To Mae West, exhibiting herself in person to England for the first time, went a twinkling tribute from the usually decorous Manchester Guardian. "It was surely a strange trick of fortune that made Mae West famous as a film star," observed the Guardian after a long, appreciative look, "for it...
As co-masters of Bizonia ... we are so closely enmeshed with Britain in Germany that these blunders cannot be absolved as unilateral. Neither partner retains the right to make mistakes of this dimension on our common ground: our Allied reputation in Germany.
"Democracy is certainly a better form of society than totalitarianism. But many proponents of it share one mistake of communists at least: they know no other dimension of existence except the social one.
"We have to make the best defense we can of our most cherished social and historical values against ruthless foes. But from the standpoint of our Christian faith we have to view such struggles in another dimension. ... A contest of power between two great blocs of power in the world...
"But neither must we fall into the illusion that the foe alone is responsible for the fears and that we are merely virtuous defenders of a great cause, beset by scoundrels. There must be a dimension of faith in which, whatever our loyalties and however justified our defense of them...