Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this deed too great for us? Must not we ourselves become gods simply to seem worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever will be born after us--for the sake of this deed he will be part of a higher history than all history hitherto...
...Orwell once observed that the death of the soul, Western civilization's renunciation of the belief in immortality, makes politics immensely the more serious; it could be the spur to a radicalism almost frenetic, hysterical, insane--though Nietzsche's phrase seems more appropriate: "a higher history than all history hitherto." The orthodox have always talked as if losing the hope of immortality would trivialize or vitiate the worth of life altogether. But their opponents might well reply that quite the opposite is true: eternity is only "shortened," as it were--the fate of one's soul, one's hopes...
...Eisenhower's visit, this iron streak of Hagerty's in standing up to the daily hammering by the press had won the grudging admiration of many British newsmen. The night before Eisenhower left, one hitherto critical Fleet Streeter declared: "We have learned to regard you here as a friend and helper." Then he added: "Should the President come back again, we shall try to ask you questions such as 'Will he be having haggis for lunch?' " Deadpanned Jim' Hagerty: "Thank you very much. I appreciate...
Overnight, on cue, critics in the Moscow press toned down their hitherto snide comments about the American exhibition, Pravda trotted out improbable quotes by metal workers and locksmiths applauding Eisenhower's invitation, and Americans in Moscow began getting telephone calls and visits from former Russian friends who had been silent for years...
Last week, with this in mind, the U.S. decided to give him the kind of public backing it has hitherto withheld. To Paris flew U.S. Information Agency Chief George V. Allen to address the 50th anniversary session of the Comité France-Amerique. Said Allen: "We believe General de Gaulle epitomizes much of the greatness, the strength of purpose and the high dignity of France. We are immensely heartened by the restored political stability and economic equilibrium of France." He praised "your initiative in creating another community, that of the eleven African states and Madagascar with France, which has also...