Word: pascale
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...sense - of shock made many statesmen and people begin to think in terms outside the old pattern of national states, and to make a move along the path to a world unity. But the first League of Nations was a bold and noble effort to produce, in Pascal's words, "a world in which force is just and justice has force at its disposal." After the second World War a new attempt was made. In the first flush of enthusiasm the founders of the United Nations organization believed that they had found the answer. In the Security Council, mainly...
...clock one morning last week a military airplane from Algiers quietly set down on Corsica, the small Mediterranean island from which Napoleon Bonaparte sallied forth to win an emperor's crown. Out of the plane stepped Corsican-born Pascal Arrighi, a French National Assembly Deputy and passionate adherent of the two-week-old Algerian insurrection. Barely 13 hours later, 36-year-old Pascal Arrighi, at the head of 250 Corsica-based paratroopers and a mob of 10,000, seized control of the island capital of Ajaccio. From the balcony of the Ajaccio Prefectural Headquarters a local contractor announced, amid...
...Lark. But Little Moon, exuberantly greeted by most U.S. TV critics last week, seemed to mark a big upturn in Costigan's career. In it he grappled compassionately with "those forces in life that make it difficult or impossible," qualified as the kind of writer once described by Pascal in a line that Costigan likes to quote: ''I most admire those writers who tell with tears in their eyes what men do to other...
...into algebra with the equation T =C/4 + 37-the outside Fahrenheit temperature equals the number of times a cricket chirps in a quarter of a minute plus 37. After algebra come geometry, trigonometry, and the theory of probability that was discovered when Gambler Chevalier de Meré asked Pascal to figure out his chances of winning a dice game when interrupted at any particular moment. The high point of the series is a show on the new field of topology. Using every sort of trick-from figuring out how a boy can cover his newspaper route without ever retracing...
...promise of The Outsider's sequel was that it would explore "my ideas about a new religion." The promise has not been kept. Instead, Wilson offers another hodgepodge of Outsiders-Rilke, Rimbaud, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jacob Boehme, Pascal...