Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only the smallest mercies, trimming income taxes only for those over 65, and halving the cinema admission tax to help the movie business up from penury. The Chancellor's one concession to industry: scrubbing a 30% tax on distributed profits and a 3% tax on undistributed profits in favor of a flat 10% profits...
...that of men of polished manners, but in that of men of large means and little brains, possessed with the singular delusion that they occupy a social position higher than the rest of mankind... a few men of ability are admitted on condition of repaying by uniform obsequiousness, the favor of associating not indeed on terms of equality, but by tolerance with persons so immeasurably their superiors...
...tradition. England's extremity is Ireland's opportunity, and the Irish Republican Army-after a long time in the doldrums-is "out" again. Its members have the illusion that Hitler's war aims include Irish "freedom." The young village buckoes give up their Gaelic football in favor of what the parish curate calls the national pastime-giving the British "a touch" or two. They spy on airfields, raid military barracks to loot arms, and in general try to behave like true descendants of "the Bold Fenian...
Before fatigue compels suspension of the current controversy about the place of religion at Harvard, we, the undersigned, who disagree as radically about the truth of Christian doctrine as we agree about the importance of truth and the reasonableness of conviction, believe we should speak out in favor of the side of the argument which has so far been almost unrepresented. What we think has been neglected is the traditional and true conception of the church and indeed of what tolerance means...
...Harvard is compelled to attend the services of a particular church (or temple, or mosque); but neither should any church be compelled to admit into itself ceremonies of other sects. To insist on such compulsion is certainly not to favor tolerance against intolerance. It is rather to prefer irreligion (or perhaps mere religiosity) to every conviction of religious reality. By welcoming, without query, the services of all faiths, the church would in effect exclude everyone whose religion is more than a gesture; it would be making itself into a shrine to the one unifying faith of Harvard indifference...