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A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

Meeting in New Delhi under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists, a body of lawyers from the free world, the Congress redefined and expanded the traditional Rule of Law to include affirmative governmental duties.

The idea of national responsibility thus has become a common feature of the nations of the non-Soviet world.

The content is not the same, however: rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' -- those in the `` free world '' -- that is basic.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

( Whether historical nationalism helped the peoples of the remainder of the world, and whether today's nationalism in the former colonial areas has equally beneficial aspects, are other questions.

Nevertheless, nationalism and sovereignty are reputed, in the accepted wisdom, to describe the modern world.

They inhabit a secret world centered on `` go codes '' and `` gold phones ''.

Unanimously they believe that the world would become a safer place if more of us -- and more Russians and Communist Chinese, too -- thought about accidental war.

His consoles can give him instant contact with more than seventy bases around the world and with every SAC aircraft.

In time Isfahan came to be known as `` half the world '', Isfahan nisf-i-jahan.

The natural world then, plus poetry and some kinds of art, receives from the most ordinary of Persians a great deal of attention.

In this true lover's tomb interred A world of love lies sepulchred.

The Frankfurt years were particularly noteworthy for his performance of Berg's Wozzek soon after the Berlin premiere under Erich Kleiber, and the world premiere of Schonberg's Von heute auf morgen.

I consider it the center of the world and make it a point to be there once a year ''.

Other world premieres will be Gardner Read's Third Symphony and Burle Marx's Samba Concertante.

countered a twenty year old law student, `` you travel around the world.

All expressed interest in world affairs but no one offered to make any sacrifices to satisfy this interest.

Incapable of self-delusion, the Founding Fathers found the crisis of their time to be equally grave, and yet they had confidence that America would surmount it and that a republic of free peoples would prosper and serve as an example to a world aching for liberty.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

Obviously, such a Northern tourist's purpose is somewhat akin to a child's experience with Disneyland: he wants to see a world of make-believe.

Rather than putting their trust in ephemeral sensations they seek form in the stable relationships of pure design, which symbolize an order more real than the disorder of the perceptual world.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

Chance, he finds, enables him to create `` a world beyond imagination ''.