Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over-look the educational character beyond the university circles of a junior year abroad. Students who procure for themselves hotel rooms or apartments in the hallowed Left Bank tradition isolate themselves from all but a few aspects of Parisian life. Social structure and tradition as well as economic conditions exist which render highly improbable that such students be admitted to the closed circles of French family life...
...world, and the Germans, will lose much if the spirit of pacifism dies. To have an army and to nurture the spirit at the same time would be a desirable compromise. But it is doubtful whether the two can exist side by side...
...claim first-hand evidence for Russia's anti-American policy. There is the chance, however, that the visitors would learn enough to question this policy. Thus even if they did return to play variations on an old theme, the result could be no worse than the distortions which now exist...
PUBLIC opinion is an attribute of every normal society. Its enforcement from above would violate human rights and the dignity of the newspaper man. If it did not exist among the people, its lack would be an even graver defect, as the Pope himself said...
...what life could be like for serfs and the members of a noble family when the lord was hard, lewd and avaricious. Old Ansiau's pilgrimage, full of pathos and compassion, cuts to the heart of a century in which deep religious feeling and incredible brutality could exist side by side. In her novel (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Author Oldenbourg has woven a huge and intricate tapestry of a medieval society so successfully that most people will be happy to look at it - and even hap pier never to have been part...