Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bergougnan had been caused by 300 Communists among the strikers, and added that the bottle bombs had been thrown by "non-workers." "Liar!" shouted Marcel Cachin, dean of France's Communists. Replied Moch: "It is easy to say others lie when one does not have an easy conscience oneself." But some of Moch's Socialist colleagues were less mild. They surged across the aisles, fell upon Communists with flying fists. After the ushers separated the combatants, the Assembly killed, 404-186, a Communist demand for a full-dress debate on the Clermont-Ferrand affair. In effect, the vote...
Land to the Tillers. But not leathery General Li Tsung-jen, the dark horse from Kwangsi. He broke boldly with the Chinese custom of never praising oneself: "My election would symbolize the triumph of the common people." He boasted of his plebeian origin. As a farm boy he had tended water buffalo, plowed paddy fields, split kindling; so he understood the hardships of the peasants. "Without solving the peoples' livelihood," he declared, "all military ventures are doomed to failure." He urged "land to the tillers," an end to "bureaucratic capital," cleanup of corruption, more capable men in government, frank...
...this one: "A student at a village theological school was learning Latin by heart. Every half-hour he runs down to the maids' room and, closing his eyes, feels and pinches them; they scream and giggle; he returns to his book again. He calls it 'refreshing oneself...
...unworthy of love; and one technique of dealing with this fear is to anticipate it, by rejecting before one is rejected." The other side of the fear of being rejected is "the fear of being exploited, of being made a sucker of, of not being truly loved for oneself alone but only for what one provides." This, says Author Gorer, is the meanest and one of the most prevalent of American fears. The generosity of Americans, great and ungrudging as it is, is likewise limited by the suspicion that they may be exploited...
...hearing at the bar of undergraduate opinion, it seems a little early for the cheerleaders to come springing forth. Let us all take a long-cool second look at the Marshall Plan. There will still be time enough let light the torches crash the cymbals and align oneself with the angels. George Follow '29, Nieman Fellow...