Word: whims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before an important contest proved too much for the three players; but this surely can not excuse their barbaric atrocity. Men live together in societies which depend in a large measure on the stability of each individual member. If a man cannot control his emotions and allows every violent whim to hold reign over his life, then society must take action against him. So Princeton must do today...
...somewhat more approving view toward permitting people to move was expressed by Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House. Taylor felt that if criteria for moving were established "where there was real necessity as against whim, this might have certain possibilities...
...touched down at Bangkok's spick-and-span military airport, the President disembarked to review the waiting honor guard, clad instead in his national Vietnamese dress: blue silk mandarin gown and black Tonkinese turban. The mandarin gown reflected more than a mere impulsive presidential whim: it symbolized a complicated and many-faceted change that has come about in President Diem's political thinking in recent months...
...accent, set his eye toward the future. "Together," he said, "we are committed with the other free peoples to the goal of a worldwide application of principles of justice under law-an inspiration that all men and institutions will be governed by a reasoned law and not by the whim or caprice of any man or group who is not thus restrained." His was a stirring and eloquent call "for men and peoples skilled in the law" to develop a law of nations (see box) where the emphasis "must shift from torts to contracts," and "where nations as well...
...setting his philosophy in beautiful glimpses of Indian life. His ideas are presented in short sketches reminiscent of Kafka's parables or Pascal's "Pensees." But his advice seems better suited to the Indian peasant plowing a lonely field behind a bony ox than to the American audience for whim he writes...