Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sohn called for "a trained army of international military servants" to guarantee peace in a disarmed world, provision for peaceful means of achieving national ends, and commitment to foreign economical aid by the United States. "If you make a package of that," he said, "anybody in his right mind would...
...mind the Administration's giving money to the Student Council. Everyone knows it is a deserving organization, and that it needs money. And, of course, it would make the Deans very happy to know that they are helping students. Students must also be happy at the news that they will no longer be buttonholed and asked for a donation by Council members at registration. Anyway, it was never much fun for the Council to claim to represent the students and then not receive much support from them...
...played by Curt Jurgens, the colonel is the classic Prussian soldier: "I don't think, I act. Food--I eat, woman--I love, war--I fight." At which point Jacobowsky murmurs, "The finest mind of the 12th Century...
Indeed, the only justified misgivings lie in the opposite direction. De Gaulle's Constitution, rather than achieving a perhaps impossible synthesis between the General's two assumptions, merely juxtaposes them. La Fontaine's fable of the pot of iron and the pot of clay comes to the mind: the possibilities of division and dispersion remain greater than the chances of unity and "arbitration." The two series of innovations designed to strengthen the Executive look more impressive than they...
...independence for Algeria; and as long as the Algerian Liberation Front insists that negotiations must lead to France's acceptance of independence, to reject the latter means to reject the former. De Gaulle's predecessors have had the same attitude. It is a realistic one given the state of mind of Frenchmen in Algeria (both civilian and military) as well as of Frenchmen in France (where very few of the Liberals have come out for independence; on the whole they ask for negotiations, thus forgetting a bit too easily what the Liberation Front's terms...