Word: path
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Niebuhr's chief contribution to U.S. liberal thinking, his friends say, is keeping his fellow liberals on the path of the pos sible. "You don't get world government," he once said, "by drawing up a fine constitution. You get it through the process of history. You grow into it." The feelings of his fellow theologians are more mixed. Some criticize his failure to think and act in terms of the church or to generate ideas that would help to counteract modern irreligion and immorality. Others find his ideas of sin too grandiose, too remote from the common...
...back issues of the Monthly. Three times a week his short, rebust figure parades up and down in a a Byerly Hall lecture room filled with scientific neophytes enrolled in the General Education offering, Natural Sciences 1. Bent over so far that he appears to be sniffing out his path, he turns frequently to gaze at his flock with what one student called "the friendliest damn eyes I ever...
...coastal jungle of Vera Cruz state, bulldozers chewed their way last week through rain forests and matted vines. They were clearing a path across the waist of Mexico for an 800-mile-long fence. Its purpose: to check the northward spread of aftosa (foot-&-mouth disease), which had already infected about one-sixth of Mexico's 13 million head of cattle and brought nightmares to Texas ranchers...
...platform. He knew his lines well: he had been bawled out before. Said he: "I accept the Central Committee's decree, particularly regarding myself, as stern but fatherly care. ... A worthy reply . . . may be achieved by work-stubborn, creative, joyous work ... on new compositions which will find a path to the heart of the Soviet people." Shostakovich was the last to recant; now all Soviet composers could go on with their joyous labors...
...press seems to be involved, are always difficult; the problem of the New Student is doubly difficult because it is unavoidably tinged with issues which the Administration hopefully tried to remove from consideration. From a mass of conflicting testimony and opinion, the Council must find some sort of path, set up some sort of guideposts, to be used in all future cases...