Word: established
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...comfortable opportunity to keep their names in front of the College. This elected body could appoint the considerably less glamorous advisory group, and there is good recent evidence that an elective council can make its appointments reasonably non-political. But whatever the mechanics of the new constitution, it should establish advising as the chief function of the Council...
Nothing is actually being done to establish a real economic union of Western European nations . . . The present British Labor Government has not the slightest desire to join in any European economic federation. Socialism in England is nationalistic. In an economic sense it is isolationist...
...from Islamic dungeons and mostly by voluntary substitution. One Mercedarian, Raymond de Blanez, was beheaded by the Moors at Granada in substitution for a condemned prisoner. Later the Mercedarians declined; by 19th Century's end, the order had less than 30 adherents. In 1918 it was reorganized to establish foreign missions. Today it has a membership of some...
...hypochondriac man, who, in a cork-lined, fumigated bedroom, wrote a mordant masterpiece about the decay of French society. Maurois heavily emphasizes the weaknesses in Proust's character-his dependence on his mother, his excessive need to be sure of the admiration of his friends, his failure to establish a normal love life, his toadying to decadent aristocrats. This Proust is a very sick man, but did his sickness dictate Remembrance of Things Past...
...feeling saw fit to convert personal tragedy into political comedy. It was one of those days on which his brutality got the better of his sentimentality. Perhaps he set out deliberately to violate every standard of human decency. More probably he seized instinctively upon a tragic occasion to establish the fact that he does not know what decency means...