Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Equality in law and political liberty exist because stubborn and contentious people . . have . . . forced their acceptance ... I obect to giving religion credit for democracy merely because religion momentarily approves it, as I would object to giving Communism credit for unions or the A.M.A. credit for private health insurance...
...another official delivers only sufficient trucks for 300 people. The farmers who have been told to deliver the Kukes at the railroad siding are then left to dispose of the 700 overflow as best they can. Nobody so far has seriously faced up to the position that will soon exist, when there are more Kikuyu in the reserves than the reserves can possibly feed; one district commissioner openly prophesies famine in his area this year...
...buyer is still the center of the retail trade, and will probably always remain so. He is the hub of a wheel around which flourish dozens of advisory bureaus connecting every phase of the business. They exist solely to support the buyer. He must go out and bring in the goods that will sell. It is on his success above all that every branch of the retailing industry must stand...
...presentation of facts sounder and their comments on events saner. However, it seems to me that the attack on Gnosticism is beside the point . . . In all matters that have to do with human beings we must get away from notions of absolutes, first of all, because they do not exist and, secondly, because they are used as brakes on human experience and progress . . . Such things as human rights-freedom and liberty-are manmade, and are unmade...
Sources of friction undoubtedly exist between Malenkov and Mao. Does Malenkov dare let Mao develop industrial independence? How hard is Moscow squeezing Peking economically to pay for its military help? Who keeps Manchuria? These sources of friction now engage the attention of Washington's psychological warriors. They also engage the minds of many who think that Mao will become a Tito if only the West is gentle with him. "Imagine," editorialized London's New Statesman and Nation last week, "that the Chinese Communists were given their rightful seat on the Security Council . . . Then the cement that holds...