And if he is so scornful of the rights of states, why not advocate a different sort of constitution that he could more sincerely support??

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

That is why, the argument runs, the squares are so fearful of jazz and yet perversely fascinated by it.

That is why the members of the beat generation proudly assume the title of the holy barbarians ; ;

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is a fantasy with extraordinary power to disturb the reader -- but we do not know why.

It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.

Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.

Conceived as an organ of economic cooperation, there is no reason why O.E.C.D. cannot evolve into a broader instrument of union if its members so desire.

The schedules are flexible so that the program can be accelerated as the public becomes more tolerant or realizes that it is something that has to be done, `` so why not now ''.

That is why it is important to invest in comfortable, airy types of shoes.

But why is it the special responsibility of the CTA to help these people??

That is why the United Nations was formed so that intelligent men with good intentions from all countries could meet and solve problems without resorting to war.

This is why he made such a magnificent soldier.

This is why I say we just can't go ahead and disarm the Germans and pull down our own defenses.

That is why our creative people give their time to literature, not to painting or sculpture ''.

Armed Forces Day is the annual report on this investment, a public presentation designed to give our own people, and the people of other lands who stand with us for peace with freedom and justice, the best possible opportunity to see and understand what we have and why we have it.

That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.

Really there is no reason why this fine exercise should not find its way into your leg program at all times, for the following suggestions show why it is so effective: 1.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.

The unit of form is determined subjectively: `` the Heart, by the way of the Breath, to the Line ''.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

But in this approach it is the artist's ultimate insight, rather than his immediate impressions, that gives form to the work.

It is through the metamorphosed dancer that the germ of form is discovered.

It only means that there will be new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now ''.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.

But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

In a bold, sometimes careless, form there is nothing academic ; ;

This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

But let us not complain of the evils of capitalism by referring to a form that is not truly capitalistic.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

A new order is thrusting itself into being.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

For Plato, `` imitation '' is twice removed from reality, being a poor copy of physical appearance, which in itself is a poor copy of ideal essence.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

No consideration of risk urges itself upon him now: for this is what the mind does with the ideas on which it has not properly focussed.

The liberal-conservative division, we might observe in passing, is not of itself directly involved in a private interest conflict nor even in struggle between ruling groups.

Thus in both types attention is focused on the community itself, and its phenomenological life.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

The most reaction can achieve is stasis, and a stasis that can be maintained only by the expenditure of an effort which ultimately exhausts itself.

Despite the hopelessness of the response, it is explicable in terms of the crisis of tradition itself.

Thus, circular motion is itself one of the essential characteristics of completely perfect celestial existence.

In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

Outstanding among these is the idea of human nature itself, including the many definitions that have been advanced over the centuries ; ;

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

A tragedy, by his definition, is an imitation of an action that is serious, of a certain magnitude, and complete in itself.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

One such event is the landing in Europe itself, when the mingled familiarity and strangeness of the Occident, after the blank immensities of Asia, shocks the returning traveller into a realization of the infinite possibilities of human life.

Since Laos is of no more purely military value to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this approach might be expected to head off Mr. Khrushchev for the moment.

It happens in the territory of the Leopoldville government, which is itself a fiction, demonstrably incapable of governing, and commanding only such limited credit abroad as UN support gives it.