Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really feel that I've lost any equity. Our relationship isn't built that way. We've been through lots of wars before, and we both realize that you don't win them...
Robert Finch, as he himself insists, may not have lost any equity with Richard Nixon. But their 20-year relationship has become strained. Yielding to pressure from the potent American Medical Association last month, the President humiliated the Health, Education and Welfare Secretary by failing to support his choice of Boston Physician John Knowles for a top department post. Bowing to his supporters in the South, Nixon later allowed Administration conservatives led by Attorney General John Mitchell to overcome Finch's reluctance to relax the standards for school desegregation. Continuing conflict between Nixon and the Cabinet's outstanding...
...meet in an effort to ease the region's tensions. In a major policy statement to the Supreme Soviet last week, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko indicated that Moscow would like to expand such efforts into other areas. The speech was a broad appeal for a constructive and friendly relationship with the U.S. While it offered no dramatic assurance of any substantial change in Soviet aims or attitudes, Gromyko's tone was more conciliatory than anything heard from Moscow in many years...
Perception is a specific form of relationship; unable to relate to a whole environment, they cannot perceive one. Deprived of dynamic, sexual relationship is first reduced to objective equivalents, then consumed: while a lover knocks unanswered at the door, they slice up first a sausage, then a banana, then an egg, and eat them. Hence when the two Marys arrange broken pieces of a plate in an effort to restore the banquet, they do not recognize their failure to return the system to its continuous state; that's the why they see the world itself--in pieces. Therefore they...
...Harrington calls a "state of Permanent Revolution against Imaginary Gods." The Devil, it follows, far from being the embodiment of evil, is man's healthiest prototypical projection of his own radical intention to challenge the gods-in fact, to become God. All humbling conceptions of man's relationship to the unknown, the author insists, are bad. Even the Hindu's striving for the oblivion of nirvana, he asserts, is a subtle passive-resistance ploy to achieve godhood...