Word: frameworks
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Dixiecrats have their own philosophical objections to any program that would seek to end segregated education. Less hidebound Southerners propound the familiar slow-and-easy thesis. The South desperately wants hard cash, but within its existing "cultural framework." The North wants to test the southern devotion to principle: can the South refuse federal aid on the segregation issue? Perhaps Jim Crow in education may prove too expensive a luxury...
...controls have, of course, hastened to deny evil designs. All they want, they say, is to be sure that the taxpayer's dollar is not recklessly squandered by careless state administrators--or even stolen. They want to be sure that the states are operating in some kind of national framework before the national treasury starts passing out the checks...
...contrasts of good and evil, freedom and necessity, love and self-centredness, spirit and matter, person and mechanism, progress and stagnation-and in this sense, God and the world or God and man. Who would deny that these are important categories? I am not unaware that . . . within this framework . . . [is] more profound thinking . . . than there was a decade...
...chilled by this framework . . . I am encouraged, however, by the fact that it is precisely the Bible that knows not only these two dimensions but also a third that is decisive-the word of God, the Holy Spirit, God's free choice, God's grace and judgment, the Creation, the Reconciliation, the Kingdom, the Sanctification, the Congregation, and all these not as principles to be interpreted in the same sense as the first two dimensions but as the indication of events, of concrete, once-for-all, unique divine actions, of the majestic mysteries of God that cannot...
What did the doings at the Palais de Chaillot add up to? The easy and cynical answer was: $39 million for more talk. Yet the framework, the organizational experience and the high goals of the U.N. had survived for another strife-torn year. The struggle for the world was being conducted mostly in arenas outside the U.N., but the U.N. remained the one place where the world's opinion of that struggle could be focused. And no one had yet advanced a resolution to the effect that world opinion was negligible...