Word: reject
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also vibrates with strong ideas about free enterprise and how to help it along. A peasant's son, La Cavera started out with a small cement plant, expanded it, then set out to see how U.S. industry operated. He returned from the U.S. convinced that Sicily should reject Italy's statist economic policy and instead open the doors to private investment. Says he: "Government has neither the means nor the ability to remake Sicily. But it must act to give private enterprise freedom and encouragement...
...know of the reflections on this subject by Albert Schweitzer in Reverence for Life or by Carl von Weizsacker (who gave a course on Scientific Method at Harvard in Summer, 1952), in The World View of Physics or by Martin Buber in I and Thou? Is he prepared to reject all philosophical slantings from Hinduism on the dangers of the development of power by the exploitation of lower by higher intelligences or in the regarding of living beings as "things...
Root Out & Reject. To Westerners, the words she spoke sounded less than incendiary. "I know how many bad customs are attached to our society," she said, "how many prejudices are fastened on us. We must root out and reject them, and in that ambiance of modern culture to which present-day life leads and calls us irresistibly, it is essential that the women of Morocco participate ardently and usefully in the life of the nation, imitating in this respect their sisters of the East and West, whose great activity contributes to the welfare of their countries...
...TARIFF FIGHT will erupt over President's power to accept or reject recommendations by Tariff Commission. At issue is recent vote by commission calling for import quotas on clothespins. President Eisenhower has twice before turned down such recommendations, but if he refuses a third time, protectionists in Congress threaten to gang up, strip him of "peril-point" veto in tariff cases...
...Eastern Europe, the New York Times's former Moscow Correspondent Harrison Salisbury reported last week that a comparable intellectual fever of unease was raging in nearly every one of Russia's European satellites. Reported Salisbury: "This does not mean that the literate spokesmen of these countries reject socialism or a socialist society. For most of them this is still the ideal. But they want a socialism founded on democracy, morality, principles and concern...