Word: tenets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another form of substitution," Leonard Cheshire explains. "People who suffer, but who cannot go to Lourdes, can get their friends to go for them-to intervene for them. It is the same tenet as Christ on the cross. They can carry their friends' suffering for them and bring them back the benefits...
...businessman knows, a cardinal tenet of New and Fair Deal gospel was that a big company was probably bad, i.e., it was tarred with monopolistic sin. Many an economist, both liberal and conservative, went along with this view, vigorously expounded in 1934 by Louis D. Brandeis in The Curse of Bigness. But last week, when 4,000 members of ten economic and statistical societies gathered in Washington for their annual meeting, the economists surprised one another by their new and friendly view of big business and their calmer attitude toward monopoly. Said Yale's Assistant Professor G. Warren Nutter...
...theory of nonresistance to evil stand up . . .? Did the convicts' nonresistance to flogging or forced labor or blackmail or prostitution transform them or those who were responsible for them into better men? . . . On the contrary, it turned them into bigger brutes." Soon Chekhov was warring with every Tolstoyan tenet, particularly the idea that "Christian love was incompatible with sexual love." And just who, demanded Chekhov, were these wonderful peasants Tolstoy was always talking about? He himself had "peasant blood in my veins" and bore the marks of peasant beatings What did the count know about such things...
Perhaps Mormon Benson might do well to let the spirit of the First Saint permeate his piousness with the basic Christian tenet of the brotherhood of all men-including the man in the overalls...
...churchman, in those days, had a life as secure as an imperial bureaucrat. Ever since the 16th century, when Luther invoked the help of German princes to fight off the dominion of Rome, the union of Throne and Altar had been a cardinal tenet of German Protestantism. The Kaiser in Berlin was the church's "Supreme Bishop," pledged to govern his country as a Christian king...