Word: circumspect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Public prayer at civic functions is permissible only if it is doctrinally uncompromised. "Our national habit of utilizing prayer as a sort of ecclesiastical garnish to all manner of secular dishes ought to make the church circumspect." No prayer should suppress "the cardinal fact that access to God is by Jesus Christ and by him alone. To portray God, in prayer, as the good-natured old man accessible to all on any terms is to bely the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ...
...from bringing Turkish newsmen into line, Adnan Menderes has only made them more circumspect. Above all else the Turks have spirit, and the Turkish press has responded to its travail with courage. When Kim's Balcioglu went off to prison, his magazine, faced with a month's suspension and a fine, merely went out of business as Kim and back into business as Mim (Mark). Stoically accepting the laws as occupational hazards, the responsible press goes right on practicing the journalist's right to print the truth, even when it hurts as much as it does...