Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mills thinks that the prevention of World War III is the most important task of the present day, but he also thinks that "The drift and thrust toward World War III is now part of the contemporary sensibility--and the defining characteristic of our time." He believes that all significant problems of contemporary man and society bear upon the issues of war and peace...
...ultimate of "eventually" in the Cowles policy is world government. The Des Moines Register put it this way: "The only way to get very far on these dilemmas of the alliance system is to go beyond the alliance toward federal union-in which the national governments would continue to exist for many purposes, but an international federal government representing people, not national governments, would handle the big unsolved problem of keeping the peace. The world is not yet ripe for world government, but that is no excuse to hang back. It is the task of this generation...
...drunkenness an excuse for soliloquizing and a basis for seeing ghosts; but where Shakespeare uses both very early and formatively, Rice brings in both very late, making them misshape rather than mold John Kerr's nicely played but small-scale snarling boy. The play is most striking where, toward the end, it shifts the moral limelight from son to mother; and Diana Wynyard plays these later scenes brilliantly...
...industry get in such a mess? One cause is the individualistic approach that the airline industry has always taken toward its labor problems. The airlines are so furiously competitive that they have not presented a united front-and thus are easy marks for a united union, which can whipsaw the industry by picking off one company at a time...
...after reading this beautiful beeography, can again regard a spoonful of honey as merely a convenient way of disposing of a slice of toast. And only a captious reader will complain of sedulous Apiarist Crompton's unholier-than-thou attitude toward the bee. The bee is better than me, seems to be his buzz...