Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There may never be a military pact as such Nehru said as much in a speech the other day, citing India's policy of nonalignment as the force which kept India from "drifting" and losing her self-respect. Nehru has always been reluctant to give up the Ghandian ideal of non-violence and non-militarism, and to obligate India to fight for another nation would be an admission of the final defeat of this ideal...
...central theme of the essay is clear: "There is a dearth of self-propelled students in the local environment." Or, in other words, we are all too "other-directed" for our own good. "Other-directed," that is, to the point of being individually original, which, in the words of at least one professor in the community, is "a seeming paradox...
...stumble along after the German, take turns carrying the child and the box of crucifixes that the priest intends for native Indians. The ceaseless procession of horrors is almost too much-but not quite. Author Lacour tips his pen with a searching probe of each character's deepest self. The priest, in his own eyes not a very good one, finally catches a glimmer of grace through sacrifice. The German and the Jew, in the only sticky pages of the book, discover the brotherhood of man, and so on through the cast...
Barzun invites all "genuine intellectuals" to take arms against the "liberal" teachers'-college products who have "a special language, a flatulent Newspeak, which combines self-righteousness with permanent fog . . ." In a sonorous exhortation, Author Barzun invites readers to remember that spelling and adding-the alphabet and mathematics-are the foundations of all learning and reason, and that the U.S. shakes them at its peril...
...approached middle age, the self-styled "Liberator King" was master of an empire stretching from the Sea of Azov to the Aegean. Roman magistrates and military officers found themselves held captive in the king's dungeons, and finally, by order of Mithradates, some 80,000 Romans and Italians were massacred. It was too much. In 87 B.C. the renowned General Sulla set out with five legions to pull the thorn...