Word: existent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perhaps he seems a villain not because he is one, but for two other reasons: 1) he is the Chinese whom Communists (and their U.S. friends) hate most, and 2) he symbolizes that side of China which is hardest for Americans to understand. What he represents has existed in China for 2,000 years, and will exist for many more. If Americans are going to know China, they will have to know the grave, grey man, with the face of an aristocratic saint, who sometimes wears a rumpled Western business suit and sometimes a blue mandarin gown, who sometimes plots...
...contemplation, i.e., of the saints and mystics, is above the life of action as well as the life of pleasure. And, as Toynbee says in Vol. 3 of his Study of History: "The goal of human endeavours . . . will only be attained when the whole of Society has come to exist of individuals of the new species which is represented by the Saints alone in human history up to date...
...enough troubles of his own, the unwed father has to worry about what the mother thinks of him. If, for example, she has an Electra complex (abnormal crush on her own father), she may just act as if her child's father didn't exist. This is damaging to his pride. At the other extreme, if she is a shrewish sort, her vindictiveness against him may reach "vicious proportions...
Stassen: Generalissimo Stalin ... I would be interested to know if you think [our] two economic systems can exist together in the same modern world in harmony...
...include the Organization of Free German Women, the Farmers' Aid Society, and the Culture Bund-all Communist fronts. Replied Ernie Bevin: "We should consult well-known groups, rather than these others. As a very old propagandist of the Socialist Party, I know a lot about . . . why they exist...