Word: saying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case like the steel strike, it is very pleasant to assume a lofty attitude and say a plague on both your houses. Unfortunately, the issues are national in scope and nobody has the right not to take a stand on them. And you cannot be against inflation and featherbedding and then fail to support the companies if their position is based on opposition to these things...
...balanced budgets calls him "one of the very ablest men in public life during the past 20 years." Adds another Cabinet member: "In this Washington scramble, the most refined form of cannibalism ever devised, it's just about impossible to find anybody who has anything nasty to say about Bob Anderson." Says Economist Gabriel Hauge, White House economic adviser from 1953 until last year: "Intellect, character, dedication-these are words that it is almost embarrassing to use today. Cynics have all but destroyed them. But I have to say them about Bob Anderson. He is a man whom...
...question of dropping the word "daily" from the News' masthead continues to divide the editors, many of whom assert that it is "dishonest" and "hardly Yale" to claim an undeserved title. Others, however, insist that "It looks good on the page--and it never matters what we say, anyway...
Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History--"Augustine would never say to Pelagius... as Socrates would say to Thrasymachus, 'Let us examine your position on virtue.' The atmosphere of the university must be the Platonic rather than the Augustinian one.... It is not the business of the historian to inculcate belief...
George A. Buttrick, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Preacher to the University--"...a university is for understanding. Our concern (in the classroom) is not to say whether you should believe or not believe...