Word: loftiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symbolism, a U.S. presidential election is not a contest between good and evil, a referendum on war, or a race between philosopher-kings that dissidents can safely ignore because party leaders have rejected the loftiest candidates. Viewing the election in such terms is no more realistic than the dreams of McCarthyites who expect to take over the Democratic Party after Humphrey loses. That hope is likely to be foiled by party professionals who, unlike the McCarthy amateurs, work at politics full time; much the same happened on the Republican side, when the pros shut out the Rockefeller forces who refused...
...have correctly identified true American patriotism grounded in the purest motives and motivated by the loftiest ideas. Pity that we are blind to the truth and have not the ability poetically bemoaned by Robert Burns to see ourselves as others see us. THE REV. W. EUGENE HOUSTON Manhattan...
...MacLeod lives in an Edinburgh flat, identified not by his name plate but by a passport-size portrait. He travels much of the year, preaching the lona ideal in a glass-shattering baritone that still needs no microphone to reach the farthest corner of the loftiest church. He bristles when addressed as "Sir," on the ground that ministers should not use hereditary titles-although he has no objection if his wife is called Lady MacLeod, since "she's not a minister." Elevation to the peerage has not changed his views. "I hope," he says, "that people will continue...
...Shih, as the Dairen youths affectionately called him, philosophized pungently: "With our night soil ladle, we shall remove all the mire remaining in society and root out revisionism to build a bright new world." As NCNA commented: "Although their hands were smeared with filth, these sanitation workers had the loftiest and purest souls...
...such lectures, but confesses that he prefers to teach a colloquium around a table where "fellows are not looking at the backs of one another's necks." He seeks "an electric exchange" with students, is "tremendously pleased" when invited to a student dinner or fraternity house. His loftiest aim for his C.C. course, in fact, is to furnish ideas for the kids to kick around in bull sessions. "The bull session is a very important aspect of education," he contends. As the hours grow late, students "express what they are really thinking about?they educate each other...