Word: martinisms
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...many listeners, the device recalled Martin Luther King's 1963 Washington speech: "I have a dream . . ." Some, however, thought that Carter's "I sees" were equally reminiscent of a 1968 speech given by Richard Nixon: "I see a day when our nation is at peace . . ." And so on. As New York Timesman William Safire confessed in his column last week, he wrote the Nixon speech and had borrowed the idea from a speech delivered by Franklin Roosevelt in 1940; F.D.R.'s speechwriter, in turn, confessed to Safire that he had borrowed it from an address given...
Army Secretary Martin Hoffmann, who spoke at commencement, gave the code a more ringing vote of confidence, then promptly qualified it. He described the code as a "timeless" statement of principles. But, he said after the ceremonies, "if conditions warrant, we'll make changes...
Heidegger's own existence was an embodiment of modern philosophy. The son of a Roman Catholic sexton in southern Germany, Martin was first attracted to the priesthood. At Freiburg University, his theological interests were deflected to mathematics and science and finally to philosophy, which for him was a matter of life and death...
...number of LDCs threatened to try to launch the fund without the major developed countries. Norwegian Delegate Martin Huslid won long applause when he announced that his country would contribute $25 million regardless of the conference's outcome. Without the participation of the large industrial nations, however, a common fund would not have adequate financial resources to be effective. In such circumstances, moreover, the fund could be transformed from a cooperative enterprise into a weapon used by cartels of producer countries against their First World customers...
...Died. Martin Heidegger, 86, seminal German philosopher whose explorations of the nature of being influenced modern theologians like Reinhold Niebuhr as well as existentialists like Jean-Paul Sartre; of circulatory disease; in Messkirch, West Germany (see EDUCATION...