Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foremost strategist is Secretary-General Santiago Carrillo, 60, who has spent the past 36 years in exile, almost all of them in France. Last week in a joint declaration with Italian Communist Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, Carrillo indirectly criticized the Portuguese Communists: "Socialism can only exist through the development and realization of total democracy...
...reality to be distinguished--which is a familiar part of language as a system of abstractions from the world. At the same time, it is a parable about distinctness itself, based on another impossibility: a total negation of distinctness. "But why, then," Marco Polo asks, "does the city exist? What line separates the inside from the outside, the rumble of wheels from the howl of wolves...
...Kissinger has assured Israel that no "linkage" will be required between the Sinai negotiations and major movement on the Golan Heights and on the future of the West Bank. Washington will continue its refusal to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization until the P.L.O. accepts Israel's right to exist and stops terrorist acts like the bomb blast in Jerusalem two weeks ago that killed 14 people. (In revenge, Israeli forces last week attacked Palestinian camps in southern Lebanon, killing at least eleven people.) The U.S. will consult with Israel before making new peace proposals for the region...
...toward" various theories of meaning and what-not to a final manifesto that, he says, only professional linguists will read: "A Theory of Language." This is the essay that boasts ignorance as one of its chief virtues. It begins with "the Discovery That an Explanatory Theory Does Not Presently Exist," and concludes with, if not a theory, at least a suggestion of where to look. Percy's occasionally cloying personal style becomes suffocating in the essay, because his foray into serious linguistic analysis is so confidently off the mark. He believes firmly and sincerely that the naive simplicity...
...sharp contrast, the managed economies exist mostly in one-party states or under completely totalitarian regimes. Any government that tries to dictate almost every decision on production, prices and wages assumes an arbitrary power that would be impossible to reconcile with political freedom. In most managed economies, for example, a strike by workers is a crime against the state; it can hardly be prohibited without suppressing the right to advocate such a strike...