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Speaking at the University of Utah Law School,, Griswold said the Court verdict implied "absolutist notions" not expressed in the Constitution. He specifically attacked Justice Hugo L. Black, who wrote the majority opinion...
...forces that Pope John has unleashed. The importance of the council that he called is already clear. By revealing in Catholicism the deep-seated presence of a new spirit crying out for change and rejuvenation, it shattered the Protestant view of the Catholic Church as a monolithic and absolutist system. It also marked the tacit recognition by the Catholic Church, for the first time, that those who left it in the past may have had good cause. "Even the most agnostic and atheistic people were cheered when they saw those thoughtful people saying those thoughtful things," says one Harvard scientist...
...maybe five-of them are pictures of which I am not ashamed," Dobell was nonetheless astounded at his new rating in the art market. His first reaction: "People must have more money than sense." As abruptly as he had jettisoned them three years ago, Monaco's absolutist Prince Rainier III, 38, restored to his subjects their 51-year-old constitution and frump Parliament. The de-putsch decree -designed to juice up Rainier's popular support and democratic image-was proclaimed on the eve of a showdown with Monaco's protecting power, France, over the principality...
...fails to achieve anything approaching profundity. It is, nonetheless, provocative. According to Evans, most of today's conservatives derive their political and economic beliefs from their more basic ethical commitments. (In fact, the word 'conservatism' comes to mean the retention of an ethical rather than a political tradition.) Their absolutist moral convictions (based either on natural law or on revealed religion) lead them--over several different paths--to an extreme individualism. One student, whom Evans quotes, remarks that the concept of morality assumes man to be a free agent capable of improving himself. "Man's pursuit of virtue," the student...
...case for cautious hope: signs that Nenni would like to break out of his longstanding and smothering alliance with the Communists. He bitterly condemned Khrushchev when Russia resumed atomic testing, has criticized Moscow's absolutist methods, which he describes as a "policy of the Last Judgment." Thus, while Italy faces an opening to the left, for Nenni and his Socialists it may become an opening to the right...