Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Community Twilight. Except for a glow of pride, tempered with nervous concern, among some Frenchmen, the only cheerful voices were being raised in Moscow, where Soviet ideologists suddenly thought they saw confirmation of the hoary Marxist-Leninist tenet that capitalist countries will inevitably be destroyed by their "inner contradictions." Cried a Russian spokesman: "This is the twilight of the so-called European Community. A difficult navigation now awaits the American ship of state...
...Exit. A competent cinemadaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's celebrated attempt to demonstrate the existentialist tenet that hell is other people...
...Exit. A competent cinemadaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's celebrated attempt to demonstrate the existentialist tenet that hell is other people...
...switch was not the result of a change in philosophy. Rather it was the application of Yovicsin's basic tenet--at the offense to the personnel. Rather than trying to develop players for an offense, Yovicsin develops an offense to match the individual talents of his team...
...party's feelings, discontent is deepest among hard-core Tories. By his brusque, humiliating dismissals of leading ministers, Mac the Knife violated the most sacred tenet of Toryism: party loyalty.* Said one former government minister last week: "The Tory Party is a peculiar, organic thing of which you're either wholly a part or else never really of it. Even a Tory leader may not really be of it-he can use and be used by the party for so long as he's required, and then he becomes expendable. That's what happened with Churchill...