Word: expounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that parliamentarianism only defines the rules of political decision making, and as such has no intrinsic normative value. Once one of us was invited to attend a discussion meeting of a few young bureaucrats from a certain ministry. There he had the frightfully uncomfortble experience of listening to them expound the notion of the inherent inefficiency of the parliamentary system. They exhibited a peculiar combination of Marxist-Leninist contempt for parliamentarianism as a bourgeois facade with the impatient frustration of bureaucrats at the irritating inefficiency of the parliamentary procedure...
...speaks about atomic science, one feels he knows all there is to know about modern physics. He can plumb the depths of Freud or analyze the mysticism of Paul Klee's paintings; he can throw new light on the obscure poetry of Hölderlin and Rilke, or expound the strengths and weaknesses of Communist dialectic. Guardini seems to control the bridges that lead from art, from literature, from philosophy -to religion...