@Bi: kairos --- Thank you, Bi, for this new (for me) concept. I may make an use of it. I noticed, for example, that almost each major statement of the Secretaries-General of the United Nations has a kairos in it. They all claim the kairos, the pressing need, the unprecedented circumstance, the inflexion point, and their duty to handle the moment. Plenty of ... kairos.

I guess that the Presidents of the United States had also their ... kairos. Let us remember! Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama. Not difficult to find their collection of ... kairos

Source author: Petru Dumitriu PetruD@diplomacy.edu