Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university "the only two institutions that have any chance of immortality." Thus one sees in his outspokenness and outrageous opinions something more than eccentricity: one sees a man in love with his profession making sure that his freedom to say whatever he wants to say in his pursuit of knowledge will never be abridged...
...practice and ideals that the U.S. State Department abandoned its custom of ignoring papal encyclicals and said: "No country could be more responsive than the U.S. to its profound appeal to, and reassertion of, the dignity of the individual, and man's right to peace, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." An American diplomat in Rome exulted: "It embodies everything the U.S. has been working for. We couldn't agree with it more...
...world: national economies are interdependent, and the peace and security of one country necessarily depend upon the peace and security of all countries. In this new age, new political instruments may be needed, particularly "a public authority having worldwide power and endowed with the proper means for the efficacious pursuit of the universal common good in concrete form." This world government-which should not replace or limit the autonomy of existing political units-might well develop from the U.N. "It is our earnest wish that the United Nations Organization may become ever more equal to the magnitude and nobility...
Seldom in history have scholars risked their skins so recklessly in the pursuit of knowledge. The illustrator Vivant Denon marched 3,000 miles through Upper Egypt with General Desaix. lagging dangerously behind the army to sketch the ruins at Abydos and Tentyra. When he and other pioneer Egyptologists ran out of pencils, they sketched with bullets. The descriptions Denon wrote in his notebook still glow with the sense of wonder the French felt as discoverers of an ancient world...
...first statement to the Presidents, Kennedy eloquently reiterated the anti-Castro theme: "At the very time that newly independent nations rise in the Caribbean, the people of Cuba have been forcibly compelled to submit to a new imperialism, more ruthless, more powerful and more deadly in its pursuit of power than any this hemisphere has known. We will build a wall around Cuba-not a wall of mortar or brick or barbed wire, but a wall of dedicated men determined to protect their freedom and sovereignty...