Word: concepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference attended by 600, Old Revolutionist Malraux noted dryly, "The works of Mao Tse-tung are dominated by one political concept: Communism. Those who talk about the group that they call 'the colonels' group' are thinking about a psychological technique without a doctrine...
...Scientists. "Zionism," says a tutor at Jerusalem's handsome new Hebrew University, "is no longer a dynamic concept because it has done what it set out to do." Young Israelis in general seem to be moving from their fathers' ideals toward a more matter-of-fact Israeli patriotism, with the solid goal of making a place for their country among the other Semitic states of the Middle East. Many Sabras look for leadership to former Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan. 43, who recently left his army command to study history at the Hebrew University and is regarded...
...thinking from that year went "beyond nationalism." Working with his staff and with the U.S. Congress, he wrote a bill that invented the concept of a "free, associated state." It was enacted "in the nature of a compact" between Congress (which approved it in 1950) and the Puerto Rican people (who ratified it in a referendum). Chiefly, the bill authorized Puerto Rico to write itself a constitution for complete local self-government and provided for U.S.-Puerto Rican relationship. Main effects...
Says Adolf Berle: "Puerto Rico has independence in everything except economics, defense and foreign relations-and these three are international by hypothesis."* Moreover, the commonwealth concept is free to evolve, perhaps in the line of further shucking off of federal laws, or unlinking courts from the U.S. system. President Eisenhower long ago promised to recommend that Congress give Puerto Rico independence any time the islanders vote for it. Moscoso says Puerto Ricans sense their freedom because they "are in a room with the doors open...
Hell is a problem for theologians as well as sinners; to reconcile the worm and the fire with the Christian concept of a loving and forgiving God has been a perennial difficulty. In the Roman Catholic quarterly, Thought, Fordham University's Assistant Professor Robert W. Gleason, S.J., investigates Satan's kingdom in the light of modern thought. Says Theologian Gleason: "A combination of sentimentality, secular humanism and determinism have produced their own bitter fruit ... It is no longer generally believed, to put the matter bluntly, that man is capable of choices that could bring him to eternal death...