Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever he did, he always had an Olympian confidence in his own work. In 1934 he wrote: "I am on a perfectly sure road; there is nothing to discuss or to criticize. One does not criticize anyone that is functioning...
...While the evangelist's teaching may be accepted and his good work appreciated, the final appeal for a decision to which all this eventually leads is resented as essentially irreligious." Indian Scholar P. J. Mehta speaks for most Hindu religious leaders when he says: "By all means discuss your faith with us, share your views and your experience with us, but India would like to suggest that the true missionary is one who, by both example and precept, helps the other to live his own faith more perfectly, and not to forsake to the missionary's faith...
...truly free society, and how can such a society be maintained?" Vast as these questions are, the Fund for the Republic announced last week that with the help of ten men it would try to find some answers. The ten consultants will meet several times a year, direct and discuss research into how various modern institutions-e.g., the labor union, the giant corporation, mass communications and private pressure groups-affect the workings of freedom and justice...
Most cases brought before the Supreme Court turn on questions of law, but the basic issue in the Du Pont case was interpretation of the facts. Judge LaBuy had found "no need ... to discuss legal principles or precedents," because in his opinion the facts did not prove the Government's charges. In overruling LaBuy, the Supreme Court took the same set of facts and saw in them a "reasonable probability" that was invisible to LaBuy...
...could not be denied that having dabbled in every age he was better prepared to discuss English Literature with his friends and to discourse learnedly about the Western tradition. The only difficulty here was that once freed from the Harvard influence he never discussed anything of the sort, and the things which had meaning to him alone were buried in this mass of external tradition...