Word: assents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When individuals arrive in a city with bail money, anti-irritants and take riot training, then subsequently are struck in a police confrontation, there does not appear to be much cause for lamentation. All thinking people deplore overreaction to provocation that results in injury to bystanders, but historically, general assent to the rule of the mob has been followed by harsh repression when some semblance of order must be reinstituted...
...keeps his beliefs free from heresy and tries to live a decent, upright, moral life. Yet to the most thoughtful spokesmen of modern Christianity, these criteria are not only minimal, they are secondary and even somewhat irrelevant. Instead, they argue that faith is not an intellectual assent to a series of dogmatic propositions but a commitment of one's entire being; ethical concern is directed not primarily toward one's own life but toward one's neighbor and the world. The mortal sins, in this new morality, are not those of the flesh but those of society...
...easy enough to argue that Christians have a God-given duty to work for racial equality, or for the eradication of hunger and disease in the world. The strategies to be followed in achieving these goals do not so easily acquire universal assent. For that reason, Dean Jerald Brauer of the University of Chicago Divinity School argues that churches should not necessarily be engaged in trying to hand down specific solutions to social and political problems from the pulpit. Christian creativity in trying to solve these questions, he says, "won't be a case of the churches poking their...
...Advisory Council has judiciously decided to invite Fouts to its meetings and to ask the Faculty to make him an exception to Ford's dictum. The Faculty should assent...
What stimulates excitement and controversy about the Living Theater is that it uses audiences almost like guinea pigs, trying to incite them to active emotional responses rather than passive mental assent. Critics have called this assault on the senses "the drama of the anti-word" or "the theater of attrition." Dialogue and plot are reduced to a minimum and replaced by improvisation, ritual and a grotesquerie of violence and the macabre...