Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this consists of the permanent validity of certain moral values designed to rescue mankind's communal living from the laws of the jungle." Though the statement slides over the instinctual courtesies that wild animals extend to one another, Silone clearly believes that man is the animal fated to strive for perfection. Perfection is objectified in ideals, and to Silone the ideal of communal living is socialism. He defines it as "a permanent aspiration of the human spirit, which thirsts after social justice." This ideal, Silone says, has taken many forms in the intellectual history of the West: Plato...
...course is too objective; it should strive to generate heat as well as light. Say Rip Smith, '72: "I thought it would give us a black, subjective viewpoint. Adding more subjectivity to the work would improve it....The subjective concept would give whites more insight into why blacks act as they do today. Perhaps it could explain why Negroes are seeking a greater voice in determining their own identity...
...bore. The growing dissent and dissatisfaction in Russia doubtlessly have infected the Komsomol, along with other elements of Soviet society. Party Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev underlined the leadership's concern when he told Komsomoltsy in his 50th anniversary speech: "Class enemies disguising themselves as the friends of youth strive to draw politically unstable, inexperienced young people into their nets to blunt their class and revo lutionary vigilance with false arguments of a bourgeois liberal nature." After that lofty en garde, Brezhnev complained about the poor showing of Russian youth in the Olympics...
...country to judge me on my personal record-on the fact that my ideas have always centered on goals attainable despite the obstacles of the moment. My yesterdays have been dedicated to today. Today, I still dream of our tomorrows and here, specifically, are the things I will strive to achieve...
...inside knowledge has long been common in the securities industry. Indeed, such investment guidance is so prized that an army of more than 11,000 securities analysts strive constantly to uncover it. Investment-company managers, in particular, feel obliged to use whatever they learn to improve their handling of other people's money. Thus, some mutual funds were indignant at the SEC's charges. President Edward Merkle of the Mad ison Fund called them "ridiculous...