Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juggler. Kirk Douglas as a D.P. in flight from the law and himself in a vivid chase story set in Israel (TIME...
...Conservative Mind, by Russell Kirk. A sympathetic survey of the philosophy which underlies the conservative position, from Edmund Burke and John Adams to the present (TIME, July...
What of the rights of man, which Burke's erstwhile friend, Tom Paine, was proclaiming from Paris? Burke's answer, Kirk observes, is pertinent to an age which seriously debates the preposterous extremes of the United Nations' Universal
...never wholly so. The ostensible home of U.S. conservatism moved to the rural South, there to meet its worst defeat. Calhoun had spoken in principle for all minorities, but in practice he spoke for the slaveholding interest. In dealing with the tragic union of U.S. conservatism and slavery, Russeil Kirk, a bold writer, does not firmly grasp his nettle. He sidles away, with a glancing blow at the abolitionist innovators. He had a better case than he makes...
...Kirk's six canons suggest an appraisal of his book couched appropriately in conservative understatement: it has an interest that is not mainly antiquarian...