Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Readers who have fought their way through the syntactic quagmires of Faulkner's fiction will be mildly surprised to find that he could sometimes be straightforward and lucid, as in his Nobel Prize Speech of 1950 ("I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail"). Far less inspiring, however, was Faulkner's commencement address to the 1953 graduating class at the Pine Manor Junior College in Wellesley, Mass. The talk is so gauze-wrapped with mystical abstractions about man and his condition that the poor students must have stumbled away from it in a stupor...
F.I.S. and USEASA rules will prevail over all aspects of the race. Prizes will be awarded to the first three places in each event...
...violated the 14th-Amendment right to equal protection of the laws. Not until 1964 did the Supreme Court reach the same result in McLaughlin v. Florida, and even then it did not quite overrule the 1883 precedent. But virtually all experts predict that Traynor's approach will ultimately prevail...
...century, science and common sense alike dictated a shift away from idealism. "Damn the Absolute," roared William James, and the American pragmatists turned from principles and categories to results and facts. But the most effective rebellion against Hegelianism was carried out by two groups-the analytic philosophers, who prevail in U.S. and British universities, and the partisans of phenomenology and existentialism, who predominate in Western Europe. On some U.S. campuses, they are known as "the logicians and the lotus-eaters...
...that the unexamined life is not worth living, since for them precisely the unexamined life is the only one worth enduring at all. But they also abjure the Freudian one: 'Where id was, ego shall be,' since for them the true rallying cry is, 'Let id prevail over ego, impulse over order'-or 'Freud is a fink...