Word: sacrosanct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pupil too must become in some sense a split person if he holds some truths, explicitly or implicitly, as sacrosanct. He must adopt the methods of Descartes, who wished to examine all truths, yet simultaneously set aside certain ethical and religious maxims for everyday life. The University demands a perpetual examination, a faith in nonfaith, a paradoxical commitment to noncommitment which produces an academic dualism that reflects well the conflicts of the twentieth century.PAUL TILLICH 'Scholarship as Ultimate Concern...
...past few years have seen a striking trend in favor of the plaintiff in damage suits, with ever bigger awards and ever broader liability. Such charitable institutions as churches have been held liable to the extent of having to pay damages out of their previously sacrosanct trust funds. The trend has even shaken the old common-law principle that a government entity is immune from damage claims as long as it stays within the bounds of strictly governmental activities ("The King can do no wrong''). Only last May, the Illinois Supreme Court declared that government immunity to damage...
...pupil too must become in some sense a split person if he holds some truths, explicitly or implicity, as sacrosanct. He must adopt the methods of Descartes, who wished to examine all truths, yet simultaneously set aside certain ethical and religious maxims for everyday life. The University demands a perpetual examination, a faith in non-faith, a paradoxical commitment to non-commitment which produces an academic dualism that reflects well the conflicts of the twentieth century
...brought to trial on 20-odd charges of forgery of names and labels. The top violin traders in Paris, London, Amsterdam and New York, who have for years passed on the authenticity of old violins, almost unanimously supported Werro. Seventy-year-old Albert Phillips-Hill of London's sacrosanct W.E. Hill & Sons, and himself known in the trade as "The Pope," called the work of Iviglia's bureau a "scandal...
...there is no such thing as an indispensable man-in or out of the White House. Better that we should all skate around on the slippery ice of politics until 1960 than retain a man who knew all the rules where other men were concerned but considered himself sacrosanct when these rules applied to him. I am a Republican and I like and voted for Eisenhower. But I think Adams had all that has happened "coming to him," and I think Eisenhower made the ultimate mistake in not firing him pronto...