Word: proof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haven to the center of a desk on Wall Street. Man appears 7 ½ feet from the center.) Darwin's theory did not suggest that man as a biological animal had improved in the 5,000 years of more or less civilized history. There was no real proof either that evolution toward a still higher life form could be speeded up by improving man's environment...
...poets and writers, celebrated unwittingly by ordinary men. The rational approach assumes that anything, including God, that cannot be proved to exist, does not exist. One essentially Romantic reply in religion was Kierkegaard's assertion that man must leap into faith, as into darkness, with no reassuring proof that God exists. Another response was modern Existentialism. In what it gloomily concedes is now a mechanistic world, it seeks to restore man's sense of individual vitality and will by urging him to will his own predetermined fate, just as a swimmer, stroking hard enough with an overwhelming current...
...chose. It satisfies the Communist demand that the Front sit down as an equal partner in a four-party meeting. At the same time, since the table will be flanked on two sides by smaller, rectangular tables for secretariat personnel, the allies can point to that as proof that the conference is a two-sided affair. Picayune though that may seem, it is an important point; it allows the U.S. and South Viet Nam to deal with the Front without according it recognition. In the weeks to come, the Communists are certain to intensify the pressure for such recognition...
COOGAN'S BLUFF. French film critics have long hailed Director Don Siegel as a minor genius, and this film is ample proof that his reputation is no Gallic caprice. With measured professionalism, Siegel tells the story of an Arizona sheriff (Clint Eastwood) who travels to New York to extradite a prisoner...
...Pius XII for being silent "when millions of Jews were murdered" during World War II. Israel rejected the U.N. censure as hopelessly one-sided, since Arab nations are regularly protected from similar blame by Soviet veto. Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Yosef Tekoah, termed the censure proof of "the moral, political and juridical bankruptcy of the Council regarding the Middle East situation." Tekoah continued, making a justifiable point that most Israelis felt summed up their case: "Is the single life of the Israeli engineer killed in Athens worth less than all the metal and wire and upholstery...