Word: discerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interviews with faculty members and local clergymen, the report attempts to determine the proper place of religious instruction in a liberal arts college. "A liberal education," it states "is the education of free men and must teach men how to be free. The free man must be able to discern and evaluate independently, and this is impossible without some basic understanding of ultimate worth. Unless he has conceptions of worth which he has chosen, his judgements will be based on standards imposed from without and he is not free...
...Lausche or others, on public issues, as compared with my own position. These gentlemen are all vocal and speak frequently, and whatever differences there may be, and the differences that come up in the future, I'm certain the press and the public will be quick to discern them." What, Kefauver was asked, makes him think he can win if President Eisenhower runs again? Kefauver, with just the proper touch of humility, replied: "I certainly would not feel that I had anything like the personal attractiveness that President Eisenhower does." But, he was quick to add, the difference would...
...thanks for the cover story on Vice President Nixon. So many distorted and possibly libelous reports have been released by big labor about him that it is hard for the small man to discern fact from fiction. In one paragraph you refute all of the distorted reports re Nixon's ambitions and intentions...
...political captives of no section or interest of our country-and we are the prisoners of no static political or economic dogmas ruling our decisions. [We] make decisions not in the light of some rigidly preconceived political axiom, but in the only light in which we can clearly discern what is just-the peace and well-being of our whole people...
...began with a prayer: "Almighty God . . . give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong . . . so that all may work for the good of our beloved country and for thy glory. Amen." He paused, then turned to the great and terrible issues of the time...