Word: writting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bloomfield's novel, which despite its ostensible subject matter is not the least pornographic, leaves its readers impressed but dissatisfied. The author has stated intelligently the case against goodness gone rancid. But too often the moving finger, having writ, fails to move on; instead it remains bonily pointing out a moral or explicating a word derivation. Some of this is helpful, but the reader is spared the invigorating effort and delight of discovery...
Michiganders of both parties have long recognized the need for constitutional reform. The current constitution was writ ten in 1908, has been amended 67 times, now runs 13,000 words longer than the U.S. Constitution, and is cluttered with archaic provisions, including one which puts a $250,000 ceiling on the state debt. Like many another state constitution, it apportions legislative representation in a fashion that is, after half a century of shifting population, totally unrealistic. The only real issue, after voters last spring approved a convention to draft a new constitution, was which party would elect more delegates...
...prevented any delegation of responsibility to local leadership. Clearly Ngo is needed in South Vietnam, but it is equally clear that his central government is becoming more and more alienated from the rural peasantry. Despite the election's results, South Vietnam resembles nothing so much as a 1946 China writ small...
Although some would deny that coexistence is writ is the stars, it will shortly become dogms in the Soviet Constitution. Similarly, to confound disbelievers in the law of progress, American auto makers have decided to install safety belts in their '62 models. A world full of earnest men coexisting dogmatically and all wearing safety belts is perhaps a little too richly utopian for a generation taught to look at life gloomily--as if from the inside of someone's Better Mousetrap. Yet such a sunny world is emerging, and science has recently made a comforting discovery which ought to dispel...
...example is the use of force, which, says Murray, baffles Protestant morality. (The "Eastern seaboard liberal," he says, at once abhors and adores power, since in the matrix of American Protestant culture "power is unconsciously regarded as Satanic.") Old-line Protestant ethics saw social morality as personal morality writ large, which led to such inappropriate questions as "How does one apply the Sermon on the Mount to foreign policy?" This failure to understand the difference between public and private morality, argues Murray, leads to the disastrously false alternatives that often characterize U.S. foreign or military policy, e.g., sentimental pacifism...