Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy to merge themselves with the great immortal institution they work for, to forget the most basic part of their humanity, which is their own mortality, and that of those around them. That is why, when they see opposition, they immediately view it as a threat to order, never thinking it might be an appeal to simple human virtue. They are sadly convinced that they can serve the institution only by taking on its values and beliefs, and that there is no room for humanitarianism, other than that defined by the narrow limits of their bureaucracy. The optimistic...
Dominguez, who was recently nominated for tenure in the Government Department, said yesterday he had been surprised when his massive Harvard University Press book, "Cuba: Order and Revolution," went into a second printing. "I had expected it to sell maybe 30 copies--I still don't know who's paying $25 for this book," he said...
...requirements for an Arab-Israeli peace: There are two conditions. One is Arab solidarity, in order to strengthen the Arabs and put them in a better position to negotiate. The other is that Carter and other international figures should subscribe to the Arab concepts of what is needed for peace. For one thing, I think it would be a good idea for the U.S. to begin talks with the P.L.O...
...lobby, is also upset. Significantly, the McRae alliance does not include the National Council of Churches, which is often part of church-state suits. Indeed, the N.C.C.'s theology commission pointedly declared this month that political activity on abortion or other issues "which seeks to bring the social order into line with ethical convictions, based on religious commitment, does not violate the separation of church and state...
...rationalists have a weakness for rationalizing. A man who considers himself a genius of the highest order also believes that such elite members of the race are never recognized. In another story Lem overloads the probability theory to suggest playfully that no one should exist. Each man's chances of being, says Lem's Professor Kouska, is a "teragigamegamulticentillion-to-one shot." In physics, one chance in a centillion is considered an impossibility because there are fewer than a centillion seconds before the end of the universe. The origin of this fact is unclear...