Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debate kept circling back to urgent yet timeless questions. What makes a good member of society? The "higher purpose" his nation exhorts him to? Or the very specific moral and legal demands put upon him by his neighbors, his village and the ties of blood and land? In an era of megamachines and megastates, do we overrate the big in history-the Roman Empire, the papacy? If you wanted to change, really change, the world today, wouldn't you do well to "cultivate smaller gardens," the neighborhood community rather than the U.N.? The seminar concluded in stalemate...
...leaders that he had overreacted to Kennedy and he regretted having done so. But by then the issue had caught fire. Kennedy's own switchboard was alight with calls from all over the country, many from older people with fixed incomes who wanted to praise his stand against higher energy costs. The White House was bombarded, too, with most of the calls positive. One person wanted to tell the President he sounded exactly like Harry Truman...
Politics is struggle that purges a system. When properly managed, it is the substitute for aggression and war. It is corrupt in spots, but also it is a way to infuse higher ideals into national affairs. Politics remains the only process through which we can achieve order, obligation, survival, freedom...
...before Ohio Senator John Glenn's nuclear proliferation and energy subcommittee, Califano predicted at least one death and acknowledged that some scientific investigators were estimating up to ten deaths. The revision was necessary because it turns out that the initial levels of radiation released in the accident were higher than thought at the time...
Princeton coach Dave Benjamin seemed thankful for the Navy scare yesterday. "Two good things happened to us this year. The Navy match shocked us out of any complacency we may have had, and Harvard beat Yale so decisively that we really have a tremendous amount of motivation. We're higher for this match than for any league match this year, and maybe for any match all year...