Word: signposted
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...both the Du Pont and Jencks cases had started before Whittaker joined the court.) But it is in Whittaker that the Supreme Court may find its spokesman for legal realism as against Warren's legal idealism. Asked about his attitudes of legal interpretation, Whittaker set out a signpost of his own: "I read the law only for an understanding of its meaning, and apply and enforce it in accordance with my understanding of its meaning." This doctrine of legal realism points to the responsibility to carry out U.S. law as it is, not as it ought to be under...
Beyond the Signpost. Dr. Radhakrishnan himself turns his face to the West in a new book out next week-a series of lectures delivered at Montreal's McGill University in 1954-under the title East & West, the End of their Separation (Harper; $2.50). To Westerners he stresses the movement of the heart rather than that of the head. "The essential religious experience is not a matter of belief in a set of propositions but is a movement of the whole self to the daily challenge of actual human relations." True to the essence of Hinduism, he sees many ways...
...they are assigned their proper place. They are not to be mistaken for absolute truth. They are used to communicate the shadow of what has been realized. Every word, every concept is a pointer which points beyond itself. The sign should not be mistaken for the thing signified. The signpost is not the destination...
When the westbound pioneers crossed the Continental Divide on the Oregon Trail, according to a legend told in the State of Washington, they came upon a fork in the road. A blank signpost pointed south, another aimed west and bore the words: "This way to the Oregon Territory." Travelers who could read, says the legend, went on to the great Northwest; the illiterates veered south to California...
...shoes of a person who was weaned on Bible stories. He dreams of visiting the places he has heard about since childhood. When he gets to Israel . . . nobody seems to know where they are . . . There are few people who would not want to be photographed against a signpost showing where David killed Goliath...