Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue raises a conflict between two fundamental democratic tenets: that the will of the majority should prevail, and that minorities should be protected against misrule by force of numbers. The present Senate two-thirds rule strikes a happy numerical compromise between complete majoritarianism and one-man veto...
...taxpayer behaves remarkably well by world standards. "No other country in the world," he says, "can approach the percentage of citizens who pay taxes promptly, report all their income, and take only the allowable deductions." But Caplin is not a man to sit back and hope that righteousness will prevail unassisted by enforcement. He has warned taxpayers that the IRS would crack down, for example, on the art-donation loophole. And he has intensified IRS scrutiny of returns submitted by high income taxpayers. "We might not examine...
...Whether democracy can prevail in the great upheaval of our time is a valid question. We have good reason to know how clumsy, slow, inefficient and costly it is compared to the celerity, certainty and secrecy of absolutism. But the important thing is that it has survived. The important thing is that even the absolutists masquerade as democrats; even the military and quasi-military dictatorships strive in the name of democracy to manage the public business. And all of them say that authoritarianism is only a necessary transition to democracy . . . The enemies of freedom, whatever the magnificent ends they propose...
...whose concern for cold war crises never destroyed his belief that the power of righteousness is greater than the power of evil. "Despite our inner conflicts and tensions and our outerspace contests," he would say, "we're going to survive. We'll not only survive; we will prevail...
...origin of this pathetic middle-class creature to Martin Luther. Putting Luther on the couch, Fromm concludes that Luther plunged modern man into despair. In a neat, if oversimplified analysis, Fromm argues that this Protestant feeling of "powerlessness" paved the way for the acceptance of Hitler. In May Man Prevail?, Fromm continues his war against the middle class with considerably less plausibility. He blames the cold war on the paranoiac attitude of the American middle class (though reserving a few knocks for Russia too), and then in a concluding chapter-written little more than a year before the Cuban missile...