Word: matter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote of 21 to 3 downed the resolution on the grounds that Pusey's stand deprives the students of a free choice in the matter. The Council also condemned the move because it might leave some boys without necessary funds...
...cannot bring myself to the view," he said, "that institutions should withdraw from the loan program and not allow each applicant to decide the matter for himself...
...Dillon said, "There can be no glossing over the danger that an attempt to seize Taiwan and the offshore islands is just as likely to embroil the world community in total war as is the launching of any other type of war. There can be no exceptions in the matter of peaceful settlement of disputes . . . We earnestly hope Peking will see the light...
...Matter of Muscle. But even in its new guise, the pact retained many of its old weaknesses. Though it has to its credit the improvement of transport and communications lines between its Middle Eastern members, CENTO still has no unified military command; the real muscle guarding the Northern Tier is supplied by the bilateral U.S. treaties. And CENTO still has a soft spot in Iran, where Russian pressure alternates between threats and blandishments in an effort to force Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi into the neutralist path...
There is no doubt that Casanova's Memoirs ranks with the great literary confessions, notably Rousseau's and Cellini's. The trouble with confessions is that the author, no matter how detached in manner, implicitly pleads for the reader's understanding. Somehow neither 20th century sociology, which might remark on the extraordinary tolerance of Casanova's era, nor 20th century psychology, which might speculate about the libertine's compulsion "to prove something," really equips the reader to understand Casanova...