Word: summum
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...biography and, he thought, to enlarge it with the prestige of destiny. Chambers' high school classmates voted him "Class Prophet." Many years later, in the '50s, after Alger Hiss had been convicted of perjury and the cold war had hardened into a nuclear stalemate, Chambers wrote his summum, which he called Witness, meaning history's witness, a prophet looking backward...
...world is more complicated than the Manichean division of oppressor and oppressed upon which so much liberal polemic is based, and life consists in more than the abundance or equality of material and political possessions which seems to be the summum bonum of most modern liberal thought...