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...Roman Church, writes Niebuhr, balances concern for the individual with concern for the health of the community, which is to be achieved by what the encyclical calls "objective justice and its driving force, love." Says he: "To assert that justice is the norm and 'love the driving force' is certainly a theory of the relation of...love to the social order preferable to some Protestant and secular theories...
...would be more pleased than the Berliners themselves were their city to occupy less space in current headlines. However, it is not the fate solely of the 2.5 million inhabitants of a city that is at stake in Berlin, but rather the question of whether freedom can assert itself throughout the world...
Broken Yo-Yo. Each of the strikes was a local affair called by a local union leader anxious to assert his authority. Like children out to embarrass their parents in public, local leaders went much further than Reuther expected, as they wrangled with G.M. plant negotiators over 11,000 issues ranging from the utterly frivolous (time off for deer hunting) to the undeniably serious (job transfer rights...
Thank you for an objective and most revealing study of the American Medical Association [July 7]. For this closed-shop union to assert that payment of medical bills from a social security check is "socialized medicine" is as nonsensical as to state that payment of the supermarket from a social security check is "socialized groceries...
...play's final assert is its set by Ian Strasfogel: great Bauhaus slats frame a room that, one suddenly realizes, is a great and unescapable cage. I would like to call it oppressive--meaning that as high praise...