Word: formula
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...this I mean that every effort to avert acceptance of error and failure-every "cosmetic" approach, in current Washington parlance-is simply a formula for further evason and self-deception and for a longer, wider war. Every effort to "save face" will lead to new Cambodia's, renewed bombing of the North or bizarre high-risk speculation, like the abortive prisoner-rescue effort...
This is not to suggest that the formula I offer will have easy consequences-for there is, of course, no easy way out of our present Southeast Asian crisis. But it can, under the right leadership, move us gradually toward something new and precious: a tempering of our national grandiosity, an end to our special sense of benevolence as a nation-an erosion of the ugly qualities that accompany such overweening confidence, including excessive fear of "loss" or "failure." It can lead, in time, toward a new national maturity: a sense that we are only one of many, and that...
...secure kind of pleasure to begin a novel by Canadian Writer Robertson Davies. This is not because the reader knows what will happen-Davies does not write formula fiction-but because he is serenely sure of what will not happen. The author will not hunt snarks, nor plant a forest of symbols and then get lost in it. Nor will he fail to have some compelling reason to write rather than remain silent...
...rights amendments were endorsed by the Supreme Court last week as well: 1) residence requirements for voting in presidential elections were limited to 30 days; 2) literacy tests for voters were suspended in all states. Effective enforcement of the ban on such tests, first provided in 1965 by a formula that applied only to the South, was extended to include the North as well. Thus about 10 million people who will move to new areas, perhaps a million illiterates, and more than 11 million youths are now added to the rolls, increasing the federal electorate by at least...
Cherubim and seraphim were sometimes interchangeable. The traditional pattern for both consisted of a head, hands, feet and six wings-one pair pointing down, one pair up, and the third pair spread to fly. It was a formula that could achieve a hierarchic majesty-no angelic being radiates more effortless authority than the mosaic cherub in St. Mark's in Venice, unfurling his blue wings against a blaze of gold mosaic. In the general humanization of angels during the Renaissance, the cherub's presence quickly succumbed. He became crossed with the amoretti, or baby cupids, of antiquity...