Word: antepenultimatum
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...Clintonic mood, words lose meaning. Every ultimatum is really a penultimatum; ever penultimatum an antepenultimatum, and very indication that everything is negotiable up to and past the stand deadline...
With the country still buzzing over Germany's unsympathetic reply to the "antepenultimatum," the Monthly launches a little manifesto, "On the Guilt of Error," by A. K. McComb. The pacifists of today, we learn, are the successors of the opponents of religious persecution in the sixteenth century. These "rationalists," "Castellio, Montaigne, Socinus, believers in the power of human reason, proclaimed that the truth might only be discovered by the free discussion of varied ideas . . . and in the end these men triumphed, and with this triumph persecution ceased. The innocence of error was everywhere acknowledged." This is news to many...