Word: raisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resembles the penniless German princeling and junior executive who married Juliana in 1937 and became Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands. Besides, as Bernhard himself said last week, "you know, my daughter Beatrix is terribly in love with this man. What can you do? The days of the marriage de raison are over...
Sartre's theoretical formulation of the reconciliation is expounded in two works, one of which serves as an introduction to the other in the French edition, Critique de la Raison Dialectique and the introductory Question de Methode. As is the case with Raymond Aron, American publishers have adopted the infuriating habit of translating all but the most important of a man's work first, so that Aron's Guerre et Paix entre Les Nations and Sartre's Critique have still not appeared. A series of selections from the Critique are translated in The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre...
...Massachusetts Baptist to be pro-integration, as for an Alabama Baptist to be prosegregation, may be nothing more than a response to what the society around him expects of him. Sociologist Peter L. Berger develops this theme at length in The Noise of Solemn Assemblies, Doubleday, 1961. The whole raison d'etre of Protestant Christianity lies in obedience to an authoritative divine revelation. Doing the right thing (supporting civil rights) for the wrong reason (because James Baldwin says to) may be better than not doing it at all, but it does make the seminary degree and Protestant ordination rather superfluous...
frames of furry verse! Quelle raison for this Audenesque
...career diplomat, Lord Harlech clearly lost much of his pleasure and raison d'être in his post with Kennedy's death. And with the election of a Labor government, former Conservative M.P. Ormsby Gore's position became even less tenable. Last week the Foreign Office in London finally got around to announcing the inevitable changing of the Washington guard. Next spring 46-year-old Lord Harlech will be replaced by Britain's recent Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sir Patrick Dean, 55. The son of a Cambridge pathologist and later a Cambridge don himself...