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...r worst leader, was also a minority president. Guess it just shows that a democratic system is a hit or miss system for choosing a leader. I wonder i... ...ATION CONTROL SINGAPORE’S PROBLEM —“Lee Kuan Yew was the greatest national leader of the last few centuries. In his 31 years as Singapore‟s ... ...n it if self-centered people didn‟t leave their used gum under tables and chairs in public places or spit it out on public sidewalks and streets. The... ...e and incomes for more gum chewing. Just look at your country. Would your national debt be less, your stock market higher, your dollar worth more, y... ...ntries, the drop in death rates and the typical high birth rates showed a national growth rate of 3.4% with an additional 1% from immigration . This... ...l system men generally get the voting rights long before women do. In the democratic U.S. only 10% of the senators are women. Contrast that with the ... ...improve the status of women in the Middle East. Women are driving forward democratic freedoms as they fight for their individual rights in societies ... ...he beacon for our societies. With this in mind, the International Olympic Committee takes the lead in many sports related issues, like doping and s... ...sment. Several years ago the IOC sent a directive to the national Olympic committees to make them aware of the extensive problems in the area of gend...

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... defend itself from foreign Despots; crowds towards Townhalls and Election Committee-rooms, to de- fend itself from domestic Aristocrats. Let the Read... ...f a thing: the Commune (Municipality) of Paris, which is already here; the National Convention, which shall in few weeks be here. The Insurrectionary ... ... lucky!) the Electors shall begin electing Deputies; and so an all-healing National Convention will come to- gether. No marc d’argent, or distinction ... ...ry rendezvous for them; in that void Palace of the Tuileries, now void and National, and not a Palace, but a Caravansera. As for the Spontaneous Commu... ...he Townhall, these astonishing tricolor Municipals; in Council General; in Committee of Watchfulness (de Surveillance, which will even become de Salut... ...ch will even become de Salut Public, of Public Salva- tion), or what other Committees and Sub-committees are needful;—managing infinite Correspondence... ...in the last days of October, Frau Forster, a daughter of Heyne’s, somewhat democratic, walking out of the Gate of Mentz with her Husband, finds French... ...s one of Duperret’s Seventy-three, ‘several Members, quitting their curule chairs, took the hand of girls flaunting in Priest’s vestures, and danced t... ... what hour ‘the Citoyennes took to their needlework;’ and we, yielding the chairs to them, endeavoured to talk gallantly in a standing posture, or eve...

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................................................... 216 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ..., regarnished into a golden Royal Resi- dence; and Lafayette with his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Neptune (in the language of p... ...rds in the Riding-hall, named Manege, close on the Tuileries: there does a National Assembly apply itself to the miraculous work. Successfully, had th... ...reak of Day Journal, though with declining sale. But why is Freron so hot, democratic; Freron, the King’s-friend’s Nephew? He has it by kind, that hea... ...n—V olume Two What a progress, since the first salient-point of the Breton Committee! It worked long in secret, not languidly; it has come with the Na... ...ouse Captains, the Mayor of St. Cloud; nay, at great length, thus asks the Committee of Researches, and not the Municipal, but the National Assembly o... ...rates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as with the sta... ...bare walls; the only fur- niture an indifferent ‘bed without curtains, two chairs, and in the recess of a window a table covered with books and papers... ...is gone, in these very days, to see old scenes in native Corsica, and what Democratic good can be done there. Royalty never executes the evasion-plan,...

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... indeed there was such a shout of triumph that no ministry in a country so democratic could have ventured to go at once against it, and to do so witho... ...or Brooks. He was also, at the time of which I am writing, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, which position is as near akin to that of a B... ...ign affairs, financial affairs, and army matters, are referred to Standing Committees in both Houses; and these committees have relations with the min... ...e with such a job of work on his hands? Congress could of course vote what committees of military inquiry it might please, and might ask questions wit... ...n remained in force; but that con- federation was an acknowledged failure. National great- ness could not be achieved under it, and individual enter- ... ...e the States, at the cost of some fond wishes, agreed to seek together for national power rather than run the risks entailed upon separate existence. ... ...ion claimed by the South for this movement is a misnomer. If any part of a nationality or empire ever rebelled against the government established on b... ... to their work with the exercise of all their energies. They organized the Democratic party so 58 North America V ol. 2 as to include the leaders amo... ...obably be given mainly to Madison and Hamilton, Madison finding the French democratic element, and Hamilton the English conserva- tive element—this qu...

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...— invaluable fellow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for t... ...s that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the building of the National Central. He left her on account of some very respect- able friends... ... Señor don Vincente Ribiera, the Dictator of Costaguana, had described the National Central Railway in his great speech at the turning of the first so... ...r to show their gratitude by bringing up their children in fidelity to the democratic form of government, “which I have established for the happiness ... ...bly enough to present a truly gratifying spectacle to the supreme chief of democratic institutions. He retired to Sulaco. His wife had an estate in th... ...ies of that stirring time, Don Jose had become the chairman of a Patriotic Committee which had armed a great proportion of troops in the Sulaco comman... ...ed a continent for our in- dependence only to become the passive prey of a democratic parody, the helpless victims of scoun- drels and cut-throats, ou... ...ve of eight o’clock last night was to organize themselves into a Monterist Committee which sits, as far as I know, in a posada kept by a retired Mexic... ...at the sixty-guinea gold half-chronometer, presented to him years ago by a Committee of Underwriters for saving a ship from total loss by fire. Sotill...

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...reality till the alarm-clock rang, at seven-twenty. III It was the best of nationally advertised and quantitatively produced alarm-clocks, with all mo... ...d four hundred thousand inhabitants now—he could see the top of the Second National Tower, an Indi- ana limestone building of thirty-five stories. Its... ... afternoon. Keep forgetting it.” At the Simplex Office Furniture Shop, the National Cash Register Agency, he yearned for a dictaphone, for a typewrite... ... crushed when the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce had re- ported to a committee of manufacturers that in every city where he had appeared, Mr. Mo... ...st dances on Royal Ridge. Rountree was chairman of the convention program- committee. Babbitt had growled to him, “Makes me tired the way these doctor... ...llen House. In an anteroom was the office of the chairman of the executive committee. He was the busiest man in the convention; he was so busy that he... ...d given him the beginning of a repu- tation for oratory, so the Republican-Democratic Central Committee sent him to the Seventh Ward and South Ze- nit... ... and it was always thinning into silence. Despite their reso- lution to be democratic they divided into two sets: the men with dress-clothes and the m... ... to Max Kruger, the banker, “Yes, we’ll put up Sir Gerald Doak.” Babbitt’s democratic love 169 Sinclair Lewis for titles became a rich relish. “You k...

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...unfortunate and misunderstood Ralston. Once he had been put forward as the Democratic candidate for governor, but failed of elec- tion. After this Mag... ...attained not by orations before senates and assemblies, but by sessions of committees, caucuses, com- promises and expedients. His goal was to be in f... ...c and Southwestern, when, as a bonus for the construction of the road, the national gov- ernment had granted to the company the odd numbered sections ... ... blanket over the couch seemed a mere patch of brown. Around the table the chairs in which the men had sat throughout the evening still ranged themsel... ...sterman, and to be persuaded to re- enter the proposed political “deal.” A committee had been formed to finance the affair—Osterman, old Broderson, An... ..., with reservations, hardly more than a looker-on, Harran Derrick. Of this committee, Osterman was considered chairman. Magnus Derrick had formally an... ... Derrick for the second, and James Darrell for the third. Nominated in the Democratic State convention in the fall of the preceding year, Lyman, backe... ...y and had gone at once to a certain hotel on Bush Street, behind the First National Bank, that he knew was kept by a family connection of the T rees. ... ...Ask Magnus Derrick what he thinks about that. Ask him how much he paid the Democratic bosses at Sacramento to swing the convention.” He went out, slam...

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...ire, or otherwise alienated them from his intimate self. A thorough-going, Democratic Socialist will 61 H G Wells no doubt be inclined at first to ob... ...a. I am inclined to imagine farming done by tenant associations, by little democratic unlimited liability companies working 135 H G Wells under elect... ...n odd little election is in progress. This is the selection, upon strictly democratic lines, with a suffrage that includes every permanent resident in... ...e poor humans have in meeting with intellectual inferiority. “The Standing Committee of Identification,” he says, with an eye on a 146 A Modern Utopi... ...s shoulders, and shows us the palms of his hands. On earth, where there is nationality, this would have been a Frenchman—the inferior sort of Frenchma... ...lear evening sky. “Don’t you think that rather more beautiful than—say—our National Gallery?” He looks at it critically. “There’s a lot of metal in it... ...ate has shaped itself; poietic men have arisen first in this department of national life, and then that, and have given place to kinetic men of a high... ...his copyright to the University press. All sorts of grants in the hands of committees of the most varied constitution, supplemented these academic res... ...ctising medical men, legis- lators, must be samurai, and all the executive committees, and so forth, that play so large a part in our affairs are draw...

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...Giguet was, during the Restoration, the natural president of the governing committee of Arcis, which consisted of the notary Grevin, his son-in-law Be... ...he information of countries so unfortunate as not to know the blessings of national repre- sentation, and which are, therefore, ignorant by what intes... ...entary discussions, salons, elections, railways, the Cafe de Paris and the National Guard—what time have we, if you please, to go to work?” “Beautiful... ...ther pretty speculation—with the rest of the money he bought stock in the ‘National,’ where I meet him every time I want to have a laugh over the repu... ...us conservatives, whereas Monsieur Dorlange inclines in a marked degree to democratic principles. This unexpected superiority in my problematical foll... ...e child told the truth. She only said, with her blunt simplicity, what our democratic customs still allow us to put in practice, though they forbid us... ...e lead in our discus- sions. In this little club the prevailing opinion is democratic; it is represented under all its aspects, the phalansterian Uto-... ...the risk of his own head being the next victim,—to call for a 205 Balzac ‘committee of mercy.’ It was the sure, the infallible means of bringing him ... ...hen the bureaus are constituted, presidents and secretaries appointed, and committees named, Sallenauve’s absence was still more marked. In the bureau...

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...ge chair. But collect individual instances; think of armchairs and reading-chairs and dining-room chairs, and kitchen chairs, chairs that pass into be... ...and dining-room chairs, and kitchen chairs, chairs that pass into benches, chairs that cross the boundary and become settees, dentist’s chairs, throne... ...aste for engineering. I have no doubt that in devotion to a virile, almost national Deity and to the service of His Em- pire of stern Law and Order, e... ...selves together in leagues and loyalties, in cults and organi- zations and nationalities, and it is often hard to say whether the bond is one of love ... ...ractising medical men, legislators, must be Samurai, and all the executive committees and so forth, that play so large a part in our affairs, are draw... ...les of religion to which he cannot subscribe and creeds he will not say. A national state church has no right to be thus limited and exclusive. Rather... ...mon Man has worked and is working infinite mischief. In politics the crude democratic faith leads directly to the submission of every question, howeve... ...ues may be, to a popular vote. The community is regarded as a consultative committee of profoundly wise, alert and well- informed Common Men. Since th... ... These two ideas, firstly the pupil-teacher parental idea and secondly the democratic idea (that is to say the idea of an equal ultimate significance)...

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...ce Carl with an astonishing faithfulness. Is it too much to hope that some democratic “Bert” may not ultimately get even with his Highness? Our author... ...eau en fait, a son propre jeu. Je desire de vendre ceci a votre government national. Voulez vous me directer la? “Bit rummy, I expect, from the point ... ...sible to mankind. The world of Bert Smallways did nothing of the sort. Its national governments, its national interests, would not hear of anything so... ..., being resolved, as he said, to give to Germany land and sea and sky. The national passion for aggression found in him its supreme exponent, and achi... ...mself but one single moment of the posturing that was so universal in that democratic time. “We have chosen our epitaphs,” he said to a reporter, “and... ...- tion that had arisen between the methods of warfare and the necessity of democratic support, is the effectual secrecy of the Washington authorities ... ...Councils of Defence, and, in the cases of India and Egypt, insurrectionary committees taking charge of the re-arming of the population, of the making ... ... 3 3 3 3 So what historians have come to call the Phase of the Emer- gency Committees sprang from the opening phase and from the phase of social colla... ...c associa- tions, brotherhoods of order, city mayors, princes, provisional committees, trying to establish an order below and to keep the sky above. T...

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...sliked to be disturbed by sounds of distress in its quiet enjoyment of the national spectacle. When led away by a grave and protecting police- man, it... ... enter a quite small room furnished with a heavy writ- ing-table and a few chairs. The servant shut the door, and Mr V erloc remained alone. He did no... ... the end of diplomacy, and pretty nearly the end of the world, in a horrid democratic upheaval. His pro- phetic and doleful despatches had been for ye... ...s- sions of humanity is the answer. Of course, there is art. A bomb in the National Gallery would make some noise. But it would not be serious enough.... ...f the Middle Classes”; special delegate of the more or less mysterious Red Committee, to- gether with Karl Y undt and Michaelis for the work of litera... ...n his round head. His round and obese body seemed to float low between the chairs under the sharp 38 The Secret Agent elbow of Karl Y undt. The old t... ...mumbled the other contemptuously, “the del- egate of the International Red Committee, has been a postur- ing shadow all his life. There are three of y... ...hing half so precise to define the nature of your activ- ity with all your committees and delegations. It is I who am the true propagandist.” “We won’... ...you can’t imagine how irri- tated he is by the attacks on his Bill for the Nationalisation of Fisheries. They call it the beginning of social revoluti...

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...Frederick Douglass passed through every gradation of rank comprised in our national make-up, and bears upon his person and upon his soul every thing t... ...oclivity or bent, to active toil and visible progress, are in the strictly national direction, delighting to outstrip “all creation.” Nor have the nat... ...ves.” Thus, I was in a pretty fair way to be denounced as an impostor. The committee of the Massachusetts anti-slavery society knew all the facts in m... ... increase their stock of knowledge, to seek pleasure, to have their rough, democratic manners softened by contact with English aristocratic re- fineme... ...duct it was intended to sustain; for, besides awakening some- thing like a national interest in me, and securing me an au- dience, it brought out coun... ...d I have crossed three thousand miles of the peril- ous deep. Instead of a democratic government, I am under a monarchical government. Instead of the ... ...ing with the lord mayor of Dublin. What a pity there was not some American democratic Christian at the door of his splendid mansion, to bark out at my... ...ted by his state to perform, are many that can only be done efficiently on committees; and, in saying to these honorable senators, you shall not serve... ...es; and, in saying to these honorable senators, you shall not serve on the committees of this body, the sla- very party took the responsibility of rob...

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...ghts, as the flames leapt and wavered. “Dear things!” she exclaimed. “Dear chairs and tables! How like old friends they are—faithful, silent friends. ... ...Before long, therefore, the groups on the mattresses and the groups on the chairs were all in communication with each other, and Mary Datchet, who 44... ...her’s daughter could hardly be anything else. I think I’ve been on as many committees as most people. Waifs and Strays, Rescue Work, Church Work, C. O... ...e told you,” Katharine added. “But I met Cyril only a fortnight ago at the National Gallery!” Mrs. Hilbery exclaimed. “I don’t believe a word of it,” ... ...ary remarked, “I’ve a great deal to say to you, but I must go on—we have a committee.” She rose, but hesitated, looking down upon him rather gravely. ... ...orm of expostulating with her about her work. “What d’you want to sit on a committee for?” he asked. “It’s waste of your time, Mary.” “I agree with yo... ...ed of a very few pages, entitled, in a forcible hand, “Some Aspects of the Democratic State.” The aspects dwindled out in a cries- cross of blotted li... ...d her green-shaded lamp to another table, and covered “Some Aspects of the Democratic State” with a sheet of blotting-paper. “Why can’t they leave me ... ...eemed to her the most lavish and hospitable of hosts. After vis- iting the National Gallery, or Hertford House, or hearing Brahms or Beethoven at the ...

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...nger years one of the biggest failures that history commemorates, an immense national fiasco, and it had implanted in his mind a deep aversion to the i... ...so anxious to meet Mrs. Farrinder, she gave the young man a delicate, dirty, democratic little hand, looking at him kindly, as she could not help doin... ...s o’clock twenty other persons had arrived, and had placed themselves in the chairs that were ranged along the sides of the long, bald room, in which ... ...ude of an enormous street car. The apartment contained little else but these chairs, many of which had a borrowed aspect, an implication of bare bedro... ...ther stultification of the suffrage, the prospect of conscript mothers in the national Senate. It made no difference; she didn’t mean it, she didn’t kn... ...moment, what he was doing; he only had a general sense that such places were national nerve centres, and that the more one looked in, the more one was... ...d in his measure, and on behalf of a vigilant public opinion, the pride of a democratic State, to the great end of preventing the American citizen fro... ...le associations. The people he had ever seen who were most in earnest were a committee of gentlemen who had investigated the phenomena of the ‘materia... ...oof, and she received her colleagues—she belonged to twenty associations and committees—only at preappointed hours, which she expected them to observe...

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...the Cage Fields, and presently extended right up the London Road. A single national school in an inconve- nient situation set itself inadequately to c... ... to man’s estate and developed a more and more com- prehensive view of our national process and our national needs, I am more and more struck by the o... ...al though complex passion for Making, making widely and greatly, cit- ies, national order, civilisation, whose interplay with all those other factors ... ... under- stand; Marx and Morris, the Chicago Anarchists, Justice and Social Democratic Federation (as it was then) presented so- cialism to our minds. ... ...ote for Remington,” and Willersley no doubt saw himself chair- man of this committee and that, saying a few slightly ironi- cal words after the declar... ... as much as anything in life could have shocked him. Socialism as a simple democratic cry we had done with for ever. We were socialists because Indivi... ...ollection of people worked for me; two solicitors, a cheap photographer, a democratic parson, a number of dis- senting ministers, the Mayor of Kingham... ...urprising that Isabel should ask for a lift in our car as far as the Lurky Committee Room, and that she should offer me quite sound advice en route up... ...nextinguishable flame; now she flew by on her bicycle, now she dashed into committee rooms, now she appeared on doorsteps in animated conversation wit...

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... undeserving friends. There was a long frameful of his work in the Clayton National School, for example, inscribed in old English lettering, “Italian ... ...hat evening upon revolutions after the best French pattern, and I sat on a Committee of Safety and tried backsliders. Parload was there, among the pri... ...o the cottage, I fell talking rather more freely with her father about the nationalization of railways, and my spirits and temper had so far mended at... ...ctures, and generally in that time of world-de- mentia pretended to be the national mind, were busy in both countries, with a sort of infernal unanimi... ...ree dirty plates, with used knives and forks upon them, on one of the hall chairs. I went into the hall, looked into either room, and hesi- tated. The... ...inally altogether replaced, the thin and vague aspirations of the original democratic ideals. They presented not only the per- sonalities who led our ... ...re absurd than the con- trolling ganglion, autocratic council, president’s committee, or what not, of each of its blind rivals… . S S S S Section 2 ec... ...began to tell me of many things that were being arranged, the Midland land committees had got to work with remarkable celerity and directness of purpo... ...and dirt-sodden carpets, their ill-designed and yet pretentious tables and chairs, sideboards and chests of drawers, the old dirt-saturated books, the...

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...ds which said noth- ing but answered all things,—progress, steam, bitumen, National guard, order, democratic element, spirit of associa- 33 Balzac ti... ... but answered all things,—progress, steam, bitumen, National guard, order, democratic element, spirit of associa- 33 Balzac tion, legality, movement,... ...s of the government are in question. He admits, with his chosen paper, the democratic element, but refuses in conversation all compact with the republ... ...lican spirit to him means 1793, rioting, the Terror, and agrarian law. The democratic element is the de- velopment of the lesser bourgeoisie, the reig... ...ter a service of thirty-six years. In 1832 he had led his battalion of the National Guard to the attack on Saint-Merri, but his neighbors had previous... ...there was no such thing as deliberation,—a saying of Louis-Philippe to the National Guard of Metz. Nevertheless, the bourgeois virtues of Phellion, an... ...yor of the 11th arrondissement, had been called to the chairmanship of the committee for reading plays, with the power to join unto him- self as assis... ...cience. The thought of boxes and tickets of which the future member of the committee could dispose in favor of his own kin had excited in the househol... ...e of the most marked traits of the bourgeois character. The session of the committee had been extremely stormy. On the subject of a tragedy entitled, ...

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... it freshly for a trifle; and the hoar-headed nineteenth-century billow of democratic ire craved the word to be set swelling. ‘Am I the fellow you mea... ...nd hillocks, and Death and Man are at grip for the haul. There we find our nationality, our poetry, no Hebrew com- peting. We do: or there at least we... ...ll the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national literary flag, which signalizes us while we float, sub- sequently ... .... An unstable London’s no world’s market-place.’ ‘No, no; it’s a niggardly national purse, not the journals,’ Mr. Radnor said. ‘The journals are tradi... ... I shall take my name off my Club up West.’ ‘More like monasteries, with a Committee for Abbot, and Whist for the services,’ Fenellan said. ‘Or tabern... ... ‘Court! my girl? But the arduous duties are over for the season. We are a democratic people retaining the seductions of monarchy, as a friend says; a... ...iors; and, over this country at least, require the refresh- ment, that the democratic sprouts in them may be recon- ciled with aristocracy. Do not lis... ...t and hear, that it called itself a man’s wife! She looked burnt out. T wo chairs had been sent to front the sofa. Execution there! Victor thought, an... ...en minutes,’ Mr. Buttermore said low, after obligingly placing them on the chairs. He went. They were alone with Mrs. Burman. No voice came. They were...

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...se can ever attain. Mrs Proudie has not been able to sit at the boards and committees to which her husband has been called by the state; nor, as he of... ... the bishop was at present much called upon by the ‘University Improvement Committee’: indeed, the Committee could not well proceed without him, as th... ... always pleasant as well as great. He took delight in elections, served on committees, opposed tooth and nail all projects of uni- versity reform, and... ...arn people that they were not to sit long. In his eyes there was something democratic and parvenu in a round table. He imagined that dissenters and ca... ...e known to other men in power. There was a cer- tain chief-commissioner of national schools who at the present moment was presumed to stand especially... ...Mrs Lookaloft soon found herself on a sofa, and the Miss Lookalofts on two chairs, while Mr Augustus stood near the door; and here they remained till ... ...your consti-stit-stit; what do you call the people that carry you about in chairs and pelt you with eggs and apples when they make you a member of par... ...Slope, and walking round to the fire, he threw himself into one of the arm-chairs that graced the hearth-rug. ‘Mr Slope,’ said the bishop, ‘it has bec...