Word: edmund
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...emotional idea, not a rational one, and thus offers a perilous guide for diverse human beings. In the realm of politics, had the world been inspired by the idea of justice rather than freedom, it might look a good deal healthier. At the onset of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke cautioned an enthusiast who sought Burke's approval of the events: "When I see the spirit of liberty in action," wrote Burke, "I see a strong principle at work; and this, for a while, is all I can possibly know of it. The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly...
...forget the Midwest, from which I myself hail, a new country, a new entity, a new nation, conceived in liberty, or, as the French would say, liberty, egalite, fraternite, although actually the French of the Constitution surely looked as much to English sources, such as Edmund Burke, as to the French philosophes. ...but I digress...
Clark, who had come from a family of staunch Democrats, became disillusioned with the party when Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown was Governor of California in the late 1950s and early '60s. His mother, Bernice Clark, once remarked, "He moved so far to the right, we can't even discuss politics." At about the same time, Reagan made his switch from Democrat to Republican...
...Edmund Muskie, who was then Secretary of State, complained to Israel about the arms sales, but the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin responded that it had sold Iran only $300,000 worth of spare tires for F-4 fighter planes. It promised, in any event, to stop all future military sales. Yet, according to U.S. intelligence sources, Israel was also selling tank parts and ammunition to Iran. In 1981, after the release of the U.S. hostages, Israel resumed its military sales to Iran without Washington's approval...
...Kafka "the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe bore to theirs." André Gide did not know what to admire most, "the naturalistic presentation of an imaginary world, or the daring turn to the mysterious." But Edmund Wilson was not ready to admire either: "Kafka is being wildly overdone," he grumbled. "What he has left us is the half-expressed gasp of a self-doubting soul trampled under...