Word: fostering
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What ultimately sustains all forms of socialism is the inherent appeal of an ideology promising to remake society in a manner that will foster a "new man" ?assured of his material needs, emotionally and psychologically unfettered and bursting with creativity. To this the socialists like to contrast "heartless capitalism," with its alleged willingness to tolerate permanent working-class poverty. The reality that the socialist promise is largely unfulfilled is not viewed as conclusive by its ideologues. In answer they would probably paraphrase G.K. Chesterton to the effect that socialism, like Christianity, has not failed, because it has never been...
...report focuses on the preparation for the ministry given at the Div School. In the report, Stendahl proposes more of an emphasis on ministerial studies, and calls for strengthening in the teaching of the arts of ministry. In order to foster the growth of what he calls a "learned ministry," Stendahl makes several proposals, including a tightening of the core curriculum required for students preparing for the ministry, the promotion of a higher competence in quantitative skills, and the strengthening of ties between the Div School and established churches...
...remarkably high quality of India's first generation of leadership long obscured a simple fact: the nature of that nation's democracy depends largely on what the leadership cares to impose. It has the power to foster democratic institutions; it also has the capacity for tyranny...
...Foster is the Dulles whom Mosley clearly likes the least. He quotes a wicked story about Foster's first appearance before the House Committee on Appropriations to give the members a sort of tour d'horizon. State Department assistants had to ask if the Secretary could change the transcript substantially before it was released. In his appearance, said one State Department man, Foster ticked off countries with capsule evaluations: "France ... all those mistresses and dirty postcards. Italians ... an asset to their enemies in every war they've fought. The Middle East: full of Arabs, but also full...
Eleanor is now 82. Foster died of can cer in 1959, displaying to the last the great family stoicism that prompted one of his doctors to remark that he was the only man he had known who insisted on walking normally when suffering from gout...