Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pride: on both sides and on the part of both men and women. What is needed is not an assertion of rights and human actions, but a humble submission to God and his word. From there the church can be reconstructed in our technological age and confront it with a powerful gospel that is radically different from the cant of our modern times. The theological issue is at the root of the whole debate. Kenneth G. Brownell '76 Douglas...
...reason. In the end, just desserts are separated from legal justice. Van de Wetering, writing with pace, freshness and laconic precision, clearly relishes the ironies. Nor is he done with them. Happily, he promises to bring back the appealing De Grier and Grijpstra in sequels to confront more of life's mysteries...
Part of the travel surely is necessary. A President does need to see his nation, does need to confront the world's other authorities eyeball to eyeball. But does he have to turn the White House into a kind of pit stop...
...DISPLEASURE of many Marxists, the issues that confront the Supreme Court cannot easily be placed on a left-right continuum. The task of the high court's justices is to interpret the Constitution, not to overthrow it, and the appointment of a "left-leaning" justice, as The Crimson's editorial suggests, could have a detrimental effect on individual liberties...
...America's political problems, was at his best in his first novel, probably the best Washington novel of all time. The plot concerns the attempt of a dying President to put a supporter of his foreign policy into office as Secretary of State, and the moral issues that confront Senators when it turns out this otherwise wise and honorable man has lied about membership in the Communist party. The issues are cast in fifties terms, but the "Profiles in Courage" feeling is universal. The chief attraction lies in a stunning performance by Charles Laughton as Seab Cooley, the archetypal Southern...