Word: ardente
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...year-old who has already been an ardent member of the Jesus movement and had the chance to see through and beyond it on my own, I am completely opposed to the technique of kidnaping and intimidation that these people employ in "deprogramming...
...believe it should alarm people that deprogrammers can operate freely without the intervention of the law. It certainly would arouse college students if a Harvard SDS member were kidnapped and returned two weeks later as an ardent John Bircher. If some 600 young people have successfully been forced to abandon their religious beliefs and convictions, what will hinder this number from climbing many times more? And what prevents the deprogrammers or similar groups from expanding their tactics to political groups? It is important that the authorities intervene today to stop such openly-connessed criminal activity as abduction, unlawful imprisonment...
...afford to become the silent woman, content with cooking soul food and making incoherent baby talk at the dinner table in the name of black manhood." Most black women do not take issue with that view. But, like Chicago Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, they do not believe that ardent feminism is the logical alternative. Says Brooks: "Today's black men, at last flamingly assertive and proud, need their black women beside them, not organizing against them...
Such criticism is not likely to deter the Teamsters. After years of being shunned as the pariah of organized labor, the Teamsters have nourished an ardent romance with the Nixon Administration that has given them a new measure of respectability and influence. An unbridled push for expansion has brought the union more than 2,000,000 members, making it the largest in the non-Communist world. What worries Meany and other labor leaders is that much of the Teamsters' growing strength is coming from raids on AFL-CIO unions...
...McCracken, 68, minister of Manhattan's interdenominational Riverside Church for 21 years; while on a world cruise; near Bangkok. A wry, Scots-born Baptist, McCracken succeeded the nationally famous radio preacher, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, at Riverside in 1946. In understated but eloquent sermons, he was an ardent advocate of both ecumenism and civil rights...