Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their story points up once more that the British as a nation are aware of one great truth which we Americans prefer to ignore: that certain moral principles can and do transcend mere personal happiness. I don't want "popularity" and "happiness" first of all for my children; if they attain the moral stature I wish for them I know they will often be both unpopular and unhappy...
...warned his people and the world: "We must never be deluded into believing that one week of friendly, even fruitful negotiations can wholly eliminate a problem arising out of the wide gulf . . . between the concept of man made in the image of his God, and of man as a mere instrument of the state...
...sometimes irritatingly brilliant, a patience comparable to that which we have virtuously tried to have toward the dull. Perhaps it is needed that we be slow to label [as] "revolutionaires," or liberals in any unfavorable sense, those who have many ideas, including occasional disturbing ideas, instead of a mere comfortable few. Perhaps it were well if we preached as often on intellectual sloth as we tend to preach on intellectual pride...
...modest (4,750 sq. ft. of floor space) $650,000 ranch house of Los Angeles Industrialist Robert McCulloch (power mowers, chain saws) was near completion after a year's construction. Big reason for the dream house's high cost: gadget-mad Bob McCulloch's departure from mere reliance on ordinary home appliances into pioneering a sort of householder's pushbutton paradise. Items: 1) beds that spring up and away from walls for easier sheet-tucking, 2) two bars with refrigerated drawers for glassware, perpetually cold ice buckets, automatic bottle-delivery tubes, 3) a tennis court sunken...
...great pity. "Content" Rodman defines as "a projection through tangible symbols of the artist's attachment to values out side art itself." To draw the shutters on all values except formal ones, and paint pictures of nothing at all, demeans art to the status of mere decoration. And art is being so demeaned, right and left...