Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history student would be able to devote that month and a half to collecting the strands of four years of diverse education. And he would go into the general examination, not to meet rephrased final examination questions as is now the case, but to set down a four-year proof that he had mastered the field of history...
...story of Persephone." But alas, it is at the end of his article. This point is reached through a wealth of fascinating but laborious detail. Jung has discussed the myth similarly but with succinct logic. Heidegger's denial of "language as a mere sign" is a double proof for it affirms it s reasoning by the example of its won poetry. Berman, on the other hand, tries to make the point that "men are interrelated analogically." But he does so in analytic terms which are extrinsic to the experience itself and also fail to objectify it significantly...
...bourgeois decadence" in the Wilma Montesi case. In the hullaballoo over drugs and sex among high-placed Romans, both Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni and the national police chief quit their posts, and there was much talk of cover-up and hush-up. But the talk was not followed by proof.* Meanwhile, Magazine Publisher Edgardo Sogno began finding political and personal scandals about the Communists themselves (TIME, Nov. 1). And last week the Communists were saddled with a sort of Montesi case of their...
...might of the United States might do better to go into its closet and pray to its Father in secret rather than standing on the street corners parading its piety before men. The temptation is just about irresistible for a powerful nation to rely on its religiosity as proof of its own virtue. Thus is threatened the possibility of sober and responsible political action...
...This sort of fear action," according to Richardson, "is ample proof that a censure of McCarthy is necessary." Commenting on the movement, Archibald McLeish, acting Master of Eliot House, said last night, "Any man who has done as much as McCarthy has to weaken the democratic institutions of this country--and I mean both the Presidency and the Senate--certainly deserves censure from every citizen...