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...Mather, what happens to this country depends on two factors: "catastrophe for the world through war or accepting the fact that we will have to live with communist countries. I think we will have to find a modus operendi between the United States and the Soviet Union. We should not try to change the internal government of these communist countries--it isn't our business to do this. There is damn little we can do about relations but it is not too early to start adapting our feelings to accepting Russia...

Author: By Phillip M. Cronin, | Title: Rocks and Brickbats | 2/27/1952 | See Source »

...believe that the Polish bishops had signed the agreement. Said a Vatican aide: "It is incredible that an agreement of this scope could have been negotiated without Cardinal Sapieha's knowledge. It could be only a dictate." Said another official: "The Communists describe the pact as a modus vivendi-a way of living. Actually, it is a modus morendi-a way of dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Way of Dying | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...opposing principles and faiths-Lippmann sees it in terms of opposing national powers which can achieve a working relationship through diplomacy. At the core of his thinking is a 19th Century term-the "balance of power." Wrote Lippmann last month: "There is no alternative to the negotiation of a modus vivendi based on the balance of power and of reciprocal advantages." In less Lippmannese English, this means a hardheaded deal between the U.S. and Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: AS LIPPMANN SEES IT | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Deal. On Berlin, the Ministers reached what the diplomats insisted on calling a modus vivendi, i.e., a way of muddling along in Berlin without real concessions from either side. The agreement instructed the Berlin occupation commanders to consult on how they might "mitigate the effects of the present administrative division of Germany and of Berlin." They would try to "normalize" Berlin's life, "facilitate" the movement of goods and people between Berlin and the Western and Eastern zones. They would also seek expansion of trade between the Western and Eastern zones. The Ministers formally agreed that the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Limited Truce | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...inevitable results follow from the peculiarities of Bay State vote-getting. With such wide-spread hardening of the political arteries, the parties have been forced to find a modus vivendi. The patronage gets divvied up on a "love thy neighbor" basis, and campaign oratory frequently resembles nothing so much as Tweedledum denouncing Tweedledee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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