Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midseason, Johnson, whose chief political appeal was a habit of success, suddenly lost his rabbit's foot. His own Preparedness Subcommittee failed to fulfill its purpose of discovering dangerous flaws in Administration defense policy. His dramatic proposal for a Congress-authorized commission to study unemployment-a tinhorn political promise thrown the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s conference on unemployment in Washington last April -gathered dust in a House pigeonhole as the economy boomed to new heights. His civil rights bill got nowhere...
Remarkably, Big Joe's inside temperature, even during its hottest, fastest, most crucial moments, never exceeded 100°, a factor not lost on the seven U.S. astronauts, one of whom will one day ride into the heavens in another...
...high cards in the world economic battle but loses too many tricks because it has no policy objectives beyond survival. One of capitalism's proudest achievements, foreign aid. should be building the foundations of the kind of orderly economic world that the U.S. wants, instead has lost its effect because it is understood as being essentially antiCommunist...
...Western public philosophy is a. shambles. Ways believes, for two principal reasons. First, modern thought has lost the sense of whole truths in a passion for fragmentation and the claim of science to a custody of "the only valid paths to knowledge." Secondly, the nation's intellectuals have lost touch with the magnificent heritage of Christian civilization that the founding fathers understood very well. The signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" to their new nation. They evidently foresaw a national purpose beyond survival ("lives'"), beyond mere national interest ("fortunes...
...position than Vanier, a courtly, erect soldier-diplomat full of years and his country's honors. Major General Vanier's family emigrated to New France from Normandy 300 years ago. Tall, mustached, old-worldly, he walks with a black walnut cane, a reminder of the leg he lost (and the D.S.O. he won) as a major of Quebec's famed Royal 22nd Regiment (the "Van Doos") at Cherisy in World War I. In Paris, where Vanier was Canada's admired postwar ambassador (1945-53), he is remembered as a sort of Canadian Charles de Gaulle (they...