Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road until their feet are sure and they know the way," Ataturk had said. "Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done." On his bronze statue overlooking the Golden Horn is another message to his people: "Turk! Be proud, hardworking and self-reliant...
Citation: "Selfless but self-reliant. Thorough but brilliant. Always ready to serve if others may benefit...
...course installed. Today student monitors police the aisles in Yale's small (50-man--or less) lecture rooms, dutifully noting down those absent. Editors of the News hark back to the Good Old Days when Big Brother was not watching you, and Yale was a college for self-reliant men. Nevertheless, DeVane's office is not old-fogey; parietal rules at Yale allow women in the rooms until...
...democratic ideal" of "the self-reliant man capable of making his own decisions and stand by them, alone if necessary," you have called "a caveman approach to democracy ... rather silly in the light of modern life..." Do you mean it? UMT would subject men at the immature age of 18 to a training in obedience, lack of independent thinking, typical soldierly evasion of voluntary duties, and excessive respect for hierarchy. It subjects them to martial law, to which the Bill of Rights does not apply; a $10,000 fine and/or five years in prison, for disobeying the president...
...perhaps the most dangerous part of your doctrine is that of the "new" democratic ideal, as opposed to the older outworn concept. The "'self-reliant man," you state, "'capable of making his own decisions and standing by them, along if necessary' ... looks rather silly in the light of modern life." I suppose he does seem rather out of place in the new nation which our "modern" pioneers are forging. Yet would you tell us, after you have built this "brave new America," based on the firm foundation of these two well-known continental peace preservatives, armaments and conscription, who will...