Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...acre (nearly five times the Philippine average), re-seeded fishermen's depleted oyster beds, supplied farmers with 10,000 brood sows and helped set up barrio councils to promote self-government. In the process, PACD has made itself the Philippines' most effective weapon against the still-present Communist-led Hukbalahap guerrillas, whose strength has always rested on the misery of the islands' 19 million barrio residents...
...that kind of argument, Murray may be counted on. At present, he sees not even a "common universe of discourse." The various groups in the pluralist society do not share one another's premises or vocabulary so that only confusion, not real disagreement, results: "Disagreement is not an easy thing to reach." If anyone can help U.S. Catholics and their non-Catholic countrymen toward the disagreement that precedes understanding-John Courtney Murray...
...present book, carefully putting the matter in question form, Murray suggests that the .American system, including the American economy, is more than a material achievement to be held somewhat suspect from the spiritual point of view, but "a human good" and a limited "end-in-itself," recalling the 2nd century dictum of Irenaeus that "the material is susceptible of salvation...
...voluptuous Venus with the golden hair (see color). Prince Josef Wenzel, one of the gayest generals in the army of the Empress Maria Theresa, owned so many paintings that, in addition to his main gallery in Vienna, he had to set up sub-galleries in four other castles. The present prince's great-uncle added paintings by Filippino Lippi, Botticelli and Rembrandt Treasures by the Row. Today most of these paintings hang in storage in rows so close together that a person can barely squeeze through. Some paintings lie higgledy-piggledy on tables and shelves Bronze statues are strewn...
...quick answer from the Wall Street Journal which snorted that "we hardly think that changing the rules would be a step in the improvement of our monetary framework." But most Washington economists wholeheartedly backed the change, were concerned only with the psychological effects it might have at the present time not with the idea's basic soundness. It already has some influential backers. The International Monetary Fund in 1958 recognized the advantages of reducing or eliminating the gold reserve requirement and Roy Reierson, vice president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., proposed abolition of the requirement last year...