Word: fusion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last act to make life comprehensible. It is purified of self-contempt and vain resignation by the capture, through the suffering of shame, of that internal fire which burns the will clear. It is exonerated from the deeper vanity of despair, or storic contemptus mundi, by the perfect fusion of hand and heart. Decretas dispels all ambiguity...
...THIS FUSION of powers-the "efficient secret" which Crossman finds so admirable-leaves the British people defenseless before the government. No Supreme Court, no legislature. The voter must count upon the ideology of the governing party. The heavy programmatic content of British politics, said Crossman, rescues the ministry from the amoral exercise of power. The Godkin Lectures keyed on personal and party power: the ideological restrictions on its use seemed almost an after-thought. But in The New Fabiun Essays, Crossman analyzed the pitfalls of pragmatism. It is direction-less-ideology begins where pragmatism fails. He could say, therefore, without...
...second great culture to reach Indochina was that of ancient India, brought by sailors and traders. Along with their commerce, the Indians carried their culture-the religion of Buddha, works of art, the concept of a god-king. The unique fusion of Indo-Asian culture that resulted reached its greatest heights in Cambodia, the seat of the once-mighty Khmer Empire. Between the 9th and the 14th centuries, the Khmers conquered all of Southeast Asia, from the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam to Burma on the Bay of Bengal, backing up their rule by building an elaborate set of canals...
...assigned specific articles. They are free to write about what interests them and in the manner they choose. "It's not good for a writer to be compelled to cover things," Tarter said. Most staff members were working for other professional publications (the New York Times, Village Voice, and Fusion ) before they came to The Phoenix. To join the paper many of them had to accept a substantial cut in salary...
Alternatively, Lindsay might remain an independent, accumulating a fusion following of the young, the blacks and the liberal suburbanites increasingly turned off by both major parties. In 1972, with Nixon, George Wallace and someone like Hubert Humphrey or Edmund Muskie in the race, Lindsay might gamble on a fourth-party movement to try for the White House or at least establish a base for future attempts...