Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...justice'; Gregory through Christian 'brotherhood'; Napoleon through 'law' and the Grand Army; Metternich through 'legitimacy'; Wilson through 'democracy.' The San Francisco conference had no comparable key; it just said 'security.' By stressing the goal rather than the path, it opened the door to all opportunities-and to all contradictions...
...Christian Century, "is not entirely foolish" when it sees rebellion against the law of God in the disintegration of the medieval mixture of Scripture and philosophy, political power and spiritual prestige. "From the standpoint of the Mater et Magistra encyclical," he says, "what could be clearer than that the path from the Thomistic theory of a just price based upon labor value, to the theory of Adam Smith, guaranteeing social justice by the automatic balances of a free market, descends steeply from the heights of justice to the morass of private greed...
...strong case could be made for the idea that Goldberg's entire life has been spent in following the path that has taken him to the big desk in the Department of Labor. His father, Joseph Goldberg, fled czarist Russia in the 1880s and wound up in Chicago, where he acquired a horse and wagon, hauled produce to downtown restaurants, and by 1892 had saved enough money to bring his wife and daughter to the U.S. Arthur was the family's seventh and last child...
Sihanouk views the great powers with deep cynicism. "They would think themselves humiliated if they followed the path shown by the leader of a non-aligned country of 5,000,000 people," says he. "When, by chance, a great power admits that I am right, it is only because they have just had a serious failure...
Novelist Honor Tracy understands Chaplin's kind of reality, as she has amply demonstrated in two previous acid-witty novels. The Straight and Narrow Path and The Prospects Are Pleasing. The grand lady in both of them was Ireland-surprisingly so because the author is herself part Irish. In A Season of Mists, She Who Gets Slapped is a more traditional Irish target-the English landed gentry...