Word: activists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small farmer in Franconia, Julius Doepfner early earned a reputation as a godly activist-as likely to show up in a refugee camp or a coal mine as in his pulpit. At Würzburg he gave special attention to refugees and young people, salted church dogma with sport talk, made church land available for housing projects, started a Catholic daily...
...noted that several years ago there was a discussion of removing from the University Housing Registry the names of landlords who discriminate. Reichard said, "May be it's time again to rethink this approach, get more activist about it, and throw Harvard's weight behind the possibility of opening up more housing to minorities...
Died. Imre Horvath, 57, Hungary's Foreign Minister, longtime (since 1918) Communist, onetime gun-toting activist (in Bela Kun's post-World War I Red rebellion) and Minister to the U.S. (1949-51), who saw his own son Imre and his nephew Alexander turn freedom fighters in the 1956 revolt, then flee to Austria; after a gallstone operation; in Budapest...
...being stifled in too much benevolent prosperity. Where Rauschenbusch preached the need for social organization, his successors deplore Organization Man. It is not so much that the Social Gospel is dead, but that it has been assimilated. The light Rauschenbusch lit half a century ago still burns in the activist, cause-conscious heart of U.S. Protestantism...
...Minh, the goateed scholar and activist who is President of Communist North Viet Nam, last week smooched in comradely fashion with Polish Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka, this week continued his buss ride through the satellites, reared back and thrust his deep-pile chops at Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Then, to prove there was Marxism beneath the mush, he fired off a blast at "imperialist America and its puppets, who are continuing to arm themselves in an attempt to dominate the world." Next target for Ho's communal cuddling: Albania's Enver Hoxha...