Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arising from hate of a father who hobnobbed with J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill, was "operative" in his decision to become a socialist, Humanist, civil libertarian and world pacifist. True to form, just as throughout this compendium of essays Lamont attacks determinism in any name, shape and form (Christian theistic, Marxist economic, Skinnerian behaviorist, even shades he sights in Dewey's naturalistic), he dismisses Freudian psychology as the explanation for his very un-patrician life choices. Rather, Lamont places a premium on just such choices--life choice, free will, individual accountability. From there, he spins a personal philosophy...
...year. Although the ship was to have been pulled out of service on Oct. 25, the end was hastened when the crew went on strike two weeks ago as the liner approached Le Havre on its regular crossing from New York. Rebellious sailors forced the France's captain, Christian Pettre, to drop anchor in the approach channel to Le Havre, blocking the harbor's entrance to larger oil tankers. The crew then announced that they would occupy the ship until the government guaranteed jobs for the 3,000 or so employees who would be affected by the liner...
...Christian Fonnesbeck...
Moon's public religious face is that of a brotherhood-minded Christian clergyman and founder of the "ecumenical" Unification Church. At a Waldorf banquet in his honor last week, a monsignor offered the opening prayer, and another Catholic, Seer Jeane Dixon, gushed, "Bless you, Reverend Moon, for your message...
...Charleston, and at the height of the furor a quarter of Kanawha County schoolchildren stayed out of their classrooms. What triggered the turmoil in West Virginia was not the usual labor dispute, but subject matter and language in public school textbooks that outraged the state's conservative Christian American Parents Association...