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...achieve these goals, he proceeded to employ his resources (which now included unchallenged legitimacy) according to the rules he had laid down in The Sword's Edge?"economy of force, the necessity of advancing in strength (and, hence, by stages or bounds), surprise for the enemy, security for oneself...
British Diplomacy. "Without having experienced it oneself, it is impossible to imagine what a concentration of effort, what a variety of procedures, what insistence, by turns gracious, pressing and threatening, the English were capable of deploying in order to obtain satisfaction...
...traitor" from Peking to the vilification heaped upon him by Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels. "What," asked Tito, "is the harm in cooperation with Western countries? Are there only millionaires and rich people living in them? Are there not also farmers and workers? Why raise barriers, why seal oneself off from the British, the French, the Americans and the others? . . . We also cooperate with the Soviet Union, and we agree with it on some questions much more than with the West." Yet the West, said Tito, is much "more realistic" than the Soviet bloc: it has not "formed...
...play's theme: dishonesty toward oneself is the worst policy. The play's hero: Lord Claverton, an aged, retired Cabinet minister who idly fingers the empty pages of his once-crowded engagement book. Two unwelcome visitors from the past destroy the sand castle of his memories-precarious memories of what was essentially bogus success. Visitor No. 1 is a moneyed spiv from Central America who shared in a disreputable episode of Claverton's youth. Visitor No. 2 is Maisie Mont joy (now respectably renamed Mrs. Carghill), a onetime chorus girl whom the young Claverton seduced; in true...
...Anglo-Saxons, says Author Alan W. Watts, former Anglican priest and a leading U.S. exponent of Zen, the main obstacle to the achievement of Zen's peace is an inability to purge themselves of the need for self-justification. This urge to prove oneself right "has always jiggled the Chinese sense of the ludicrous." The Chinese rated human-heartedness ahead of righteousness, felt that one could not be right without also being wrong. "At the roots of Chinese life there is a trust in the good-and-evil of one's own nature which is peculiarly foreign...