Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full member of the pact, and Iran's Eghbal outspokenly demanded more U.S. and British aid. But the U.S. had already pumped $470 million into CENTO's three Middle Eastern members in fiscal 1959. "Clearly, the U.S. cannot underwrite all CENTO economic projects," said Secretary of State Christian Herter. Imperfect as CENTO may be, however, the U.S. could not abandon it without shaking the free world's strategic position in the Middle East, and Herter also made it plain that he was aware of that. Said he: "CENTO will continue to enjoy strong U.S. support...
...committee based part of its argument on a statement of practical problems: the worldwide "population explosion," high incidence of abortion, Christianity's occasional tendency to escape reality by taking refuge in tradition. Says the report: "The extremely high rates of abortion in many regions, Eastern and Western, with their toll of human suffering and violation of personality, testify to a tragic determination among parents to find some means, however bad, to prevent unwanted births." The committee added: "It must be confessed that in the past Christian thought has, especially in the area of the family and its relationships, often...
True marriage and parenthood, said the committee, are areas in which the Christian is permitted freedom of twofold kind: "This means freedom from sensuality and selfishness which enslave. It also means considerable latitude of choice, when the motives are right, in regard to mutually acceptable and noninjurious means to avert or defer conception." The only controlling factor: individual conscience. God has put it up to husband and wife to decide for themselves, said the committee, "whether any one act of intercourse shall be for the enrichment or expression of their personal relationship only, or for the begetting of a child...
...anti-semitism threatened to obscure the true issues. In a deeper sense, the central problem was whether or not Harvard as an institution should be committed to a particular religion, or indeed to religion at all. When one considers that Harvard was originally founded to prepare men for the Christian ministry, it became clear how basic this problem was, not only for the present, but also in terms of the traditions and continuity of the College...
Stephen Aaron '57 and Melvin Maddocks, drama critic of the Christian Science Monitor, awarded Oh Dad, Poor Dad, the $150 prize as the best of ten plays submitted to the competition...