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...realm of hard diplomacy the United States might negotiate for guarantees against aggression: security for West Berlin or an agreement (if one does not already exist) that Soviet toops will not return to Cuba. We might even request that the USSR pay its bill at the United Nations...
...brother, Zachariah (James Earl Jones), is one of nature's children, open-faced and openhanded. He tends a park gate where he shoos away any colored child who tries to enter. Every night Morris readies a ritualistic footbath for Zach's raw, swollen feet. But in the realm of color, skin-deep is heartdeep and there is no balm for those abrasions...
...that it "was most shocked by the fact that her conversion was not immediately made public by you." The church asked the cardinal "for clarification of the matter in the interests of ecumenical understanding." Alfrink refused, saying that Irene's relations with the Catholic Church fell in the realm of "secrets of the confessional...
...keeps them apart, but is at least partially transcended by their glances, by their slight contact, and by the chance that they may some day truly discover one another. It is this possibility for change, for mutuality, that life extends to Domenico, which lifts his colorless routine into the realm of emprise. It is this possibility which lends animation, humor, and warmth to the Sound of Trumpets...
Romantic Revolt. Freudian psychology, or its popularized version, became one of the chief forces that combined against Puritanism. Gradually, the belief spread that repression, not license, was the great evil, and that sexual matters belonged in the realm of science, not morals. A second force was the New Woman, who swept aside the Victorian double standard, which was partly based on the almost universally held notion that women-or at any rate, ladies-did not enjoy sex. One eminent doctor said it was a "foul aspersion" on women to say they did. The celebrated 2nd century Physician Galen...