Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biography of Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (see BOOKS), Critic Lionel Trilling, writing in the New York Times this week, expressed a thought for Columbus Day. Said Trilling: "[Freud] lived by the inner light; he saw life under the aspect of personal heroism and believed that virtue consisted in making truth prevail against the resistance of society . . . Such a personality makes but a limited appeal to our increasingly 'other-directed' society with its ideal of blandness and cooperation and its suspiciousness of personal preeminence and self-assertion . . . A few years ago, a hostile biographer . . . made it a chief part...
...Pioneer Trust Co. of Salem, trustees of the janitor's es tate. Declared Museum Director Colt: "The perceptive journalism of a great magazine and the vision of a generous citizen combined to reaffirm my faith that great art will always call forth strong champions, who will prevail over confusion...
...Party 30 months ago, to rejoin the party as Andhra's chief minister of state. Then he warned 100,000 new Andhrans in Kurnool that they should not set themselves aside from India. India was the mansion, states such as Andhra its rooms. "The spirit of unity should prevail," he said, "if the country is to prosper...
...masters are known to favor some liberalization of last year's agreement, but it is highly unlikely that their view will prevail tonight...
...Dulles coupled the strongest recent U.S. statement of belief in absolute morality as the basic standard of politics with the humblest recent U.S. denial that it believes in its own omniscience. "We are ready to learn from others. Also we recognize that our views may not always prevail. When that happens, we shall regret it, but we shall not sulk. We shall try to accept the result philosophically. We know that we have no monopoly of wisdom and virtue. Also we know that sometimes time alone proves the final verdict...