Word: steadfast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ethical judgments are merely emotional expressions like "Yipee!", Hook still believes in philosophy as a meaningful guide to human actions. On the other hand, he also stands apart from the recent upsurge of Christian existentialism propounded by Jaspers and Tillich. In short, amidst changing philosophical fashions, he has remained steadfast to the credo he learned, not at his mother's knee, but from his spiritual father, John Dewey-a rational humanist whose roots reach back to Enlightenment...
...must pretermit all this, even decline to mention the phrasing of his narrative, the ingenuity of his conceit. I cannot, however, refrain from remarking with highest approbation--upon his obvious familiarity with the Lesser Celandine, a flower whose possibilities have never been adequately explored; and his accurate and steadfast belief in Nymphs and Satyrs, the old and true deities, whose existence has in no way been refuted by the cults of various recent pretenders...
...Kirby invited Young to his salmon-fishing camp on the Gaspe Peninsula. Kirby complained that Young spent most of the weekend writing a poem on salmon fishing. But the poem signed by Young, now hangs framed on Kirby s office wall, together with a picture signed: "To AIlan, the steadfast who made it possible-with my undying appreciation...
...consecutive years (1920-52) Congressman from the First District of Mississippi; of a heart attack; in Tupelo, Miss. A shrewd parliamentarian, for all his demagoguery, wiry John Rankin consistently backed veterans' benefits and rural electrification (he co-sponsored the TVA bill with Senator George Norris), was equally steadfast in vituperating Negroes, Jews, labor unions and Communists (real or imagined) in a manner matched only by his fellow Mississippian, Senator Theodore Bilbo...
...more thoughtful and cogent analysis of steadfast and changing France has not yet been written. Aron is no brilliant apologist for any national cause, despite his former connection with Gaullism; he is St. Raymond, killer of myths, and as such extraordinarily incisive. For his explanations, he offers impressive support; it is only his optimism, as he himself confesses, which must still remain unjustified