Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chin Minh ("Mr. Ho the Bright Spirit"), turned out the Japanese puppet ruler and organized an anti-French rebellion. Once in power, he decided that Communism could wait. Says Ho: "Almost 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ said we should love our enemies. We are still far from that ideal. I do not know when Marx's ideal will be achieved. . . . Maybe Viet Nam will be Communist in 50 years...
Assuming that the industry could get moving under all this, the mass desire for new automobiles would still go largely ungratified for a year or two. Even if conditions were ideal, manufacturers could not make new cars as fast as the old ones are falling apart...
...planning. Wootton defines freedom as the ability to do what you want, planning as a conscious choice of economic priorities by a public authority, and points out the area where planning does not necessarily mean curtailment of freedom. The book is perhaps more valuable as a picture of an ideal equilibrium than an aid in solving contemporary economic problems...
...ideal was old and not yet realized but still good: Christendom united for the cause of Christian peace. Now it was raised once more. Last month Pope Pius urged Christian principles upon the peacemakers Last week Protestant leaders of eight nations, in London for a four-day meeting of the World Council of Churches, reiterated the word from Rome, called for a joining of Protestant and Catholic hands to let statesmen know the strength and power of the Christian faith...
...earth knows a lot that has no place in the West's scientific structure, and thereby finds the West's systematizing barren of much delight and wisdom. It is Professor Northrop's ambitious aim to try to "correlate" the esthetic and the theoretical into a philosophical ideal that will do for all civilization the world over...