Word: christian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promised to abide by the tested ways of the past and one that offered a more innovative approach to the future. In the five general elections since World War II, West German voters unfailingly opted for security, a penchant that has given two decades of unbroken rule to the Christian Democratic Union of Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger. As the current campaign unfolded, however, it seemed that many West Germans might be ready for something new. For the first time since 1930, the revitalized Social Democratic Party of Foreign Minister Willy Brandt appeared to have a real chance of gaining power...
Puberty Manifestations. According to the computerized projections, the Christian Democrats drew 46.6% of the vote and probably will win 245 of the Bundestag's 496 seats, the same as in the 1965 elections. The Social Democrats attracted 42.3% of the ballots and picked up 20 new seats for a total of 222. Still their performance fell short of some optimistic expectations. The big losers were the Free Democrats, who had sought to transform themselves from a conservative into a liberal party; with only 5.6% of the vote, they lost 20 seats and wound up with only...
Though the Christian Democrats and Socialists have been partners for the past 33 months in the black and red Grand Coalition, the campaign accented their deep differences. In fact, during the campaign's final week, a dispute between the two major parties threatened to unsettle not only German financial affairs but the world monetary system as well. Betting on an upset victory by the Socialists and the prospect of a resulting upward revaluation of the mark -which the Socialists favor-speculators flooded West Germany with nearly $600 million in foreign currency in three days. Kiesinger sought to stem...
...authors faced formidable problems trying to meet the Supreme Court's requirements and at the same time answer serious theological objections. Though the Clark formula is clear, critics have argued that objectivity is difficult to realize in practice. Most religion courses, Jews maintain, are bound to reflect a Christian bias in what is historically a Christian society. Other critics insist that true impartiality, in any event, distorts the real nature of religion as a sense of the ultimate. "Reading the Bible as literature rather than as revelation," says Rabbi Eugene Borowitz of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion...
...well as all persons seeking happiness by sun, the Pill, pot, sex or Playboy. Sacred cows of all sorts from Winston Churchill to Eleanor Roosevelt are flogged to the abattoirs. Despite some archness and excesses of language, Convert Muggeridge often succeeds in convincing. As he presents them, the Christian churches and their priests-especially the Anglicans "drivelling away their lives"-do not seem good enough, nor the Pope himself sufficiently papal, to minister to the spiritual needs of our bewildered world. The Muggeridgiad stays amusing withal; cap and bells are this prophet's hair shirt...