Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson, this concept in no way represents a forfeiture of leadership. It means merely that he is willing to accept slow but steady progress toward the "great society" he envisions, rather than risk a setback or stalemate by trying to knock heads together. Johnson's great society does not consist of some grand philosophic design. Johnson distrusts philosophy. He is a pragmatist, and his interest lies in moving step by step toward clearly attainable goals...
...Angeles campus with a long report on such scholarly research as treatment for fruit canker and survival of the condor. Finally, he brought up the subjects that had summoned Governor Pat Brown from Sacramento and newsmen from all over the state. Should the 23 regents under Chairman Edward Carter accept a demand, supported by Berkeley students and faculty, that a committee of professors henceforth pass judgment in student discipline cases? And should the university abandon its regents-conferred right to add its own punishment to any given out by courts to students arrested for illegal action-typically for civil rights...
Packaging v. Product. A similar demand for doctrinal caution is voiced by Pike in his recent A Time for Christian Candor. He argues that the church keeps the treasure of its revelation in "earthly vessels," and that it is idolatry to accept as eternally true what is only historically conditioned. He suggests that Christianity abandon the notion of the Trinity, which has now become a pagan tritheism instead of what the church fathers intended to say. To avoid confusion of the "packaging" with the "product," Pike would do away with all spatial images of God, everything that suggests a distinction...
Commissioner Esther Carter's ignorance is in the best (or worst) tradition of an ancient office that now requires no special qualifications whatever. In 1793, Congress began appointing "discreet persons, learned in the law" to accept bail in federal cases. The qualifications died in 1896, when Congress handed over the appointments to U.S. district judges. Today's 700 U.S. commissioners may be butchers, bakers or candlestick makers. Yet they function as the federal judiciary's committing magistrates, hold preliminary hearings and determine whether accused persons shall be released or held for trial...
...pieces of cut paper or cloth glued on a flat surface; they look like paintings) by Pat Morse. The artist, a girl who teaches in Berkeley, California, seems to be a happy exception to my own belief that women seldom make very good artists. (Women, of course, won't accept this; they say that not enough women have had the chance to become serious artists. One can answer that plenty of women cook, but the best cooks still are men. But that never seems to settle anything...