Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very important about this country." In a mood of reminiscence and evaluation. Theologian Tillich was summing up TIME'S 40th anniversary party, held last week in New York City. "All these people." as Tillich described them, were 284 subjects of cover stories in every field of human endeavor, who had gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria to help celebrate the birthday. The party provided a unique opportunity for businessman to meet musician, for architect to meet politician, for entertainer to meet scientist, for general to meet churchman, for physician to meet sportsman. "The point of this party." said Editor...
James sadly commented on the conflict between different Me's; but, as usual, he concluded in an optimistic and morally educative fashion. His remarks provide a glimpse of the personal aims of his philosophical and psychological endeavor. "Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome and fat and well dressed, and a great athlete, and make a million a year, be a wit, a bon-vivant, and a lady-killer, as well as a philosopher.... But the thing is simply impossible.... Such different characters may conceivably at the outset of life be alike possible...
...James did not have so much of his life invested in abstract theorizing that he could feel compelled to enshrine truth as a self-evident end-in-itself. He did not hesitate to demand from logical systems the same credentials that he required from every other product of human endeavor. That is, he persistently demanded evidence of their value for life...
This theme appeared in a recent Washington press conference where Rockefeller said he was unable to understand why American supported "freedom fighters" in South Vietnam while "we are holding them back in Cuba." "And I hope," he added, "it is not as a means or as an endeavor to appease the Soviets...
...neither of these cases did he added, "it is not as a means or as an endeavor to appease the Soviets...