Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Jews," says Hertzberg, "do not look to the church down the street as the bearer of a pure faith, undefiled by what is wrong with contemporary America-if only because its minister is quite likely to be telling all who will listen that the struggle for piety is as hard a fight among Christians as among Jews. There can be camaraderie in this battle, but there is no overwhelming evidence that it is more nearly won at one end of the street than at the other...
...Today," he says, "Christianity is the religion of the West and primarily of whites." But Eastern religions, once passive, are showing renewed vitality and missionary zeal. "A revived Christian evangelism reasserting its 'Great Commission' to convert, and hence to dissolve, all other faiths, will not only embarrass America before the world; it will undercut our foreign policy and lend new fuel to the appeal of Communism in the East . . . Let us stand separately for our various truths. Let us stand together for the peace of society. Let us not do to one another that which is hateful...
...college will shun short-term specialization, emphasize principles that endure through technological changes. Oakland will offer degrees in only four fields: liberal arts, engineering, business, teaching. Every student will devote half his time to humanities, spend a full year studying the Far East, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Engineers must master one foreign language, preferably Russian, and all seniors will take a "great issues" course together...
...week the Soviet press had fleshed out the image they sought: of an America that gave its heart to the world's No. 1 peddler. "Nikita S. Khrushchev," said Moscow's Literary Gazette, "is the constant, fearless, fervent champion of peace. Now all the common people of the world know it. This includes the citizens...
There had been plenty of other offers. Shrewd, tough and resourceful, Otto Graham was an All-America tailback at Northwestern University, passed and ran the Cleveland Browns to seven league championships in a glittering ten-year professional career that ended in 1955. Last year, proving he could coach big-time football as well as play it, Graham turned assorted college players into a smooth unit that trounced the world champion Detroit Lions in the annual all-star game...