Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find them playing a game that they can never win. And most bitterly of all I turn to face the hippies, the beatniks and all the other dropouts who profess to be lost souls, wandering in search of something to believe in. Yet all the time that lost ideal has been shining brightly in front of them...
...will not prove that either is turning soft. Each respects the other's power. Each knows the price and the risks of an endless arms race and repeated confrontations. Thus each concedes to the other, however bitterly, a degree of latitude within its own sphere. The system is not ideal, and it is certainly not moral, but it has one unassailable virtue: so far, it has worked. Also, it can buy time for men like Alexander Dubcek, and others inside and outside the Communist domain, to continue striving, in some form, for freedom...
Literacy Through Penance. A Marxist revolution can hardly represent the Christian ideal. Just as obviously, inertia is no answer to Catholicism's chal lenges today. A sensible middle way would see the church lending its weight to nonviolent reform-as Chilean Theo logian Hernan Larrain puts it, "Christianizing the inevitable revolution." In a few areas, Catholicism has had the time and talent to do so. In Venezuela, for example, the clergy has helped cut illiteracy from 50% to 12% in the past decade. One shrewd but practical way of accomplishing this was to require penitents to teach illiterates...
...atrocities in her name. Florian, her cynical panderer, is Brother Death himself. Lily's problem is that she is a nymphomaniac who is unable to achieve orgasm. Florian brings her an endless string of ardent customers whom he kills while they are trying vainly to satisfy the great ideal...
...strain on the U.S. than on the U.S.S.R. "Americans tend to look on war as a great moral struggle and are apt to be more receptive to the idea of outlawing it than of merely restricting it. If a war does not involve some high and all-encompassing ideal such as freedom, democracy, a war to end war, Americans are reluctant to go into it . . . To the Communist nations, limited war has an altogether different dimension. In fact, inspiring and supplying 'wars of national liberation' which they intend to keep as limited wars has been a declared national...