Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While "high tragedy requires an heroic alternative rejected," pathos emerges from a feeling that no alternatives exist. To say that "God is dead," as Nietzsche did, is tragic, because if He were alive He could save us. But to declare that God is absent is a "weary dismissal of all alternatives...
...keep the peace for the past ten years, remains an uncertain defense against the 50 divisions that the Soviets can hurl against Europe on short notice. No matter how low NATO planners set the sights, each year member countries manage to evade filling the targets. Only 21 NATO divisions exist, even on paper, along the West's front line. It took a Frenchman, General Jean-Etienne Valluy, 60, NATO's Commanding General of Allied Forces, Central Europe, to point out last week that "apart perhaps from the U.S. and Canada," many NATO members "have not kept their promises...
...other church schools insist upon for their children. Not that the parochial school is an "all-week Sunday school." It covers the same academic ground as the public school, teaches religion formally for only brief periods (about 30 minutes daily in Catholic elementary schools). But the parochial school does exist primarily for one reason: "To develop the morally intelligent person." And so "the primacy of the spiritual" suffuses all subjects ("Faith is never departmental: all things fall within its purview"). "Christian or Christ-centered culture is the supreme integrating principle...
...Leonid I. Sedov gave a detailed report on the trajectories of Soviet moon shots. In response to questioning, he said that the Russians also had rocket failures. He denied rumors that they have put a man in space and said that they will not even try until three conditions exist: that the man will be safe in space, will return to earth safely, and will be able to do tasks beyond the capability of instruments...
...system." Seligman was simply to pay Loughran "a couple of thousand dollars" to kill the summons. When he protested, an inspector told him: "If you don't pay up, you will have to give 16 ounces to the pound, and you know you can't exist that...