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...Emile Josef De Smedt rose to give the speech that was to have introduced the declaration. When he sat down, after pleading that "religious liberty is demanded by human dignity itself," there were tears in his eyes. He was rewarded with applause that rolled on and on, the moderator powerless to stop...
...these distractions, the family's control of the business has been remarkably enlightened. Even the critics of its nepotism concede that the family shunts its mediocre members into powerless "drag" jobs. The Du Ponts motivate their hired managers to fierce loyalty by giving them uncommon amounts of power and money. To achieve the outlook and flexibility of a small company, they have broken up their firm into a dozen operating departments that are only loosely supervised from above. A department general manager is like a captain on a ship, free to chart his own course so long...
...first seep of city rot and saw the real crisis." After leaving Cranbrook in 1936, Bacon served for two years as a city planner in nearby Flint, then landed a job back in Philadelphia as managing director of the Philadelphia Housing Association. It was one of the earnest but powerless organizations that existed in many cities across the land before cities realized that their inner renewal and reshaping was not just a matter of esthetics but of vital budgetary economics...
...were not. The books and controversies were yet to come; but at the end of this confession, filled with self-loathing though incapable of self-pity, Sartre dryly admits: "For a long time, I took my pen for a sword; I now know we're powerless. No matter." There will be more books. "What else...
...work in the Democratic Party, it may have to realize that a compromise is not necessarily based on betrayal, cowardice, and ignorance, that it is often a part of the process of two strong groups vying for power. Without using the weapon of compromise, the MFDP may remain powerless...