Word: undergoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morgenthau in the American Political Science Review last June helped get the re-examination going. He called for tougher-minded selectivity in the handing out of economic development aid. Some nations. he wrote, "are bum and beggar nations'" that cannot really make use of development aid unless they undergo a "miraculous transformation of their collective intelligence and character." Above all, he argued that aid can be effective only if it is "considered an integral part of the political policies of the giving country...
...Illusions. Europeans at first regarded the U.S. fretting about their thin capital markets as merely raising "a very delicate question.'' But now that European businessmen are beginning to undergo the rigors of a profit squeeze and need more outside capital, they are feeling the capital shortage strongly. The Common Market has ambitious plans to free capital movements among the Six by 1967, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is meanwhile urging liberalization within each country. A French study commission has recommended such measures, and Italy has passed regulations forcing banks to put more funds into long...
...April 8 Canada will undergo it's fourth general election in six years. With four parties contesting the 265 seats of the twenty-sixth Parliament, the prospects for a second consecutive minority government are all too imminent. The dangers of such minority rule were well exemplified by Prime Minister Diefenbaker's legislative program of the past year. The laissez-faire attitude of his Progressive Conservative Party--wait and things will take care of themselves--emphasized the necessity for a stable government and responsible leadership in the coming Parliament. Diefenbaker's unwillingness to face such pressing matters of national concern...
...most painful experience which man can undergo is to strip off veil after veil of obscuring matter and finally encounter what Yeats called "the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart." But to achieve the "wholeness" of which Brother Antoninus speaks, this experience is essential. This is why he writes poetry; it forces him to probe the nature of his heart: "It is painful, but there will be a catharsis, a healing, and an appeasement...
...issue at stake. This is not a power which is used lightly; there have been few frivolous filibusters and almost none have succeeded. In most legislation the will of the majority prevails. But when a minority feels so imperiled by a bill that it is willing both to undergo an exhausting physical strain and to risk the wrath of fellow legislators by filibustering, it can do so. Free Senate debate is the only American political institution which takes into account not only the numerical support a proposal has, but also the intensity of the feelings of those deliberating...