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Some Anglicans, deploring "South Bank religion," argue that the Southwark clerics are making Christianity so timely that it ceases to be timeless. But Bishop Stockwood believes that time is running out. As he declared after his consecration as bishop: "I have nothing but contempt for a church that sets out to be eclectic, that just wants to draw to itself the holy holy Anglo-Catholics. I have every use for a church that sets out to draw all those living within its boundaries...
...Right to Contempt. When Camus dropped out of the Communist Party after a couple of years' membership in his early 20s, it was because he was repelled by all forms of absolutism. There was already stirring in him the great attack he would mount in The Rebel on Marxism, Communism, Hegelianism and all systems where the ends justify the means, where present-day cruelties are excused as part of an infinite plan. And he never could share the Marxist view that poverty was the ultimate evil, even though he was poor himself. He felt that a true love...
...hatreds. But once war has come, it is both cowardly and useless to try to stand on one side under the pretext that one is not responsible. It is both impossible and immoral to judge an event from outside. One keeps the right to hold this absurd misfortune in contempt only by remaining inside...
None of these "explanations" would satisfy Harvard College, or any of the other branches of Harvard University. If the Summer School is serious about them, its contempt for its students is enormous. In the eyes of the administration, Summer School students possess so little intelligence that they are incapable of benefiting from free discussion of public issues; the only activities suitable for them are Yard punches and mixer dances. In addition, the Summer School underestimates its own faculty when it claims that the menace of "unrepresentative" opinions comes only from outside the University. There are enough faculty members with controversial...
...South, desperately wanted to keep him out of jail. In first confronting Wallace, the Administration team thoughtfully kept the Negro students out of the way, inside automobiles parked well away from the door. That way, Wallace was not actually obstructing them and could not be charged with contempt of Judge Lynne's order...