Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appears in the daily newspapers, that the Western public possesses all the wariness it needs about Communism and that what it needs to know infinitely more urgently, if it is to survive, is the meaning of its own values rather than the meaning of values it has learned to reject almost by reflex...
...weakness and folly (but also out of my strength), I committed the characteristic crimes of my century . . . the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form, so that the characteristic experience of the mind in this age is a political experience. At every point, religion and politics interlace, and must do so more acutely as the conflict between the two great camps...
...course requirement, and indeed the whole third section of its Report, is merely a different altitude applied to the same problem: G.E.'s heretofore indifferent success as a means of educating the whole man. We happen to share the optimism implied in the Report's first two sections, and reject the despair of its third...
...Gluecks reject the traditional conception of crime as a result of poverty, suggestion, or decline in morality. They seek, in this study, to discover the truly basic complex set of interrelated factors which are at the seat of anti-social behavior...
School No.1 cautions the West not to reject Russia's offer solely on grounds which the Russians can do something about, but the West cannot. Thus, Russia might permit free elections, and at a later date hand back the land east of the Oder-Neisse to sweeten the bargain. Then what would the West do? School No. i argues, in effect, that Russia may now be making a tactical retreat...