Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worlds assess the qualifications of our students? They might develop ways, such as we have too seldom uses for earnest evaluation of the merits of individuals. But what of the problem of disjointed careers? If we are convinced on the basis of evidence in hand that one should bind oneself to a particular career before ever leaving school, and we can decide that alienation from work has nothing to do with our demand that one remain for 45 years in the work that was attractive at age 20, then interim study may be a nusiance. But perhaps...
...Beaumont that as many as 150,000 refugees from Los Angeles might stream into Beaumont if there were an enemy attack, and that all survival kits should include a pistol. "There's nothing in the Christian ethic," said Dwyer, "which denies one's right to protect oneself and one's family...
...such a career, there co-exist two standards of achievement: (1) a striving to surpass the best work done in a field, and (2) a working measure, seeking patiently to surpass oneself. The first suggests a goal (ill-defined, but alluring), the second a method of operation. The fairly common case where ambition is unbounded, but also unsure of how to proceed (lacking the second standard of achievement), produces a sense of frustration, which can become an excuse either for not trying at all or for finally accepting the mechanical comforts of the course system...
...worlds assess the qualifications of our students? They might develop ways, such as we have too seldom seen, for earnest evaluation of the merits of individuals. But what of the problem of disjointed careers? If we are convinced on the basis of evidence in hand that one should bind oneself to a particular career before ever leaving school, and if we can decide that aliehation from work has nothing to do with our demand that one remain for 45 years in the work that was attractive at age 20, then interm study may be a nuisance. But perhaps...
...predestination Calvin added such corollary conclusions as "particular redemption" (God's picking and choosing the elect), "moral inability" (the impossibility of doing anything to save oneself), "invincible grace" (the impossibility of doing anything to damn oneself if God has decreed otherwise) and "final perseverance" (the guarantee that all the elect will reach heaven-no matter what...