Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Attorney General's Information, field against the University in the interest of friends of the Arnold Arboretum, charges that the Corporation violated the terms of the trust establishing the Arboretum when it moved a large quantity of plant materials and books to the University Herbarium in Cambridge...
...inexplicably omitted. The time thus saved is devoted to two bombinating battles that never actually took place; to a wildly unhistorical subplot that exaggerates Barabbas (vaguely identified by the Bible as an insurrectionist) into a sort of George Washington of the Jews, and makes Judas merely a bewildered Benedict Arnold; to a number of incidents in the life of Christ -among them a dramatic death-cell confrontation with John the Baptist-that are nowhere sanctioned by scripture and invariably ring false...
...Christian, says McCord, this raises the question of the uniqueness of Christianity. "Inevitably, the dawn of universal history will be a stimulus to syncretism''-the combining of elements from different religions. "Our most widely read historian. Arnold Toynbee. is an apostle of an amalgam of Christianity and Mahayanian Buddhism." And the syncretist "is an indication of the necessity of a Christian apologetic that will take seriously the new conditions that have emerged and the new context out of which the syncretistic question is asked...
...Public corruption is based on our society's values of materialism, power and wealth," said Arnold M. Soloway, Special Advisor to the Governor on Fiscal Affairs, and visiting professor of Economics at Boston College Graduate School. Citizens should accept this assumption of values, he continued, and "put materialism to work" to attract better men to public office...
...Burnett, Inc.-and a lot of others in the $12 billion-a-year U.S. advertising business agree with him. Lately there has been a new flare-up of criticism of the adman and his trade. Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa damns advertising as "venal poetry," and Historian Arnold Toynbee contends that it is the unholy idol of materialism (TIME, Sept. 22). Some of the most articulate critics occupy influential jobs in Government, from U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth (The Affluent Society) Galbraith to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow, who has lambasted TV's "many screaming, cajoling and offending...