Word: tenet
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True enough. Yet the central tenet of Lefever's orientation is that human rights should not be a major concern of U.S. foreign policy. Beyond "serving as a good example" and providing military aid to allies, Lefever wrote, "there is little the U.S. Government can or should do to advance human rights." Two years ago, Lefever recommended to a congressional committee that it remove from U.S. law "all clauses that establish a human rights standard or condition that must be met by another sovereign government." He said last week of that pronouncement: "I goofed...
...member Missouri group, the testament is a highly welcome acquisition since it fortifies a major tenet of faith. In an official statement, President Smith and other leaders of the Reorganized Church said that the document "confirms the historical view" it has always held about the church succession. Historian D. Michael Quinn, of the Mormons' own Brigham Young University, put it even more bluntly: the terms of the blessing "mean only one thing in the Mormon Church, that Joseph Smith III would be president of the church...
...nation, as a whole, would be improved. Perhaps. The old democratic vista of Whitman and Emerson, the transcendentalist democracy of one for one and one for all sounds quite fine; it always has. Since that goal has never been achieved, however, one may argue that it is simply another tenet of American hypocrisy, or, less harshly, that it is a goal incompatible with the realities of human nature...
...Right be done" is a tenet of the English courts. Off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater has done right by The Winslow Boy, which first appeared on Broadway in 1947. The "well-made play" was much in vogue at that time, and in the carpentry of artifice, Britain's Sir Terence Rattigan probably had no peer...
...from Philby, Burgess was able to flee England for the Soviet Union. Not that Forster would have approved of Philby or Burgess; the event merely shows that personal loyalty can sound prettier than it is. In The Third Man, Graham Greene created a wholly honest hero, honesty being a tenet of good friendship, who is a loyal friend to an evil man. In the end, Holly Martins betrays the child-murderer Harry Lime because he comes to value the friendship of mankind, or, more abstractly, the friendship of doing right, over that of a single person. That, too, takes guts...