Word: council
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...recess for some short-story writing and freelance journalism, rose steadily to the coveted rank of career ambassador. He held three ambassadorships (Laos, Syria, Morocco) in the Eisenhower Administration, then became deputy to Adlai Stevenson and Arthur Goldberg at the United Nations. In 1966, he retired to join the Council on Foreign Relations. In a 1964 book, The Age of Triumph and Frustration: Modern Dialogues, one of Yost's imaginary speakers sums up a diplomat's view of Realpolitik: "The hopes of international peace depend upon a firm disregard of the rights and wrongs of disputes, on which...
...Herbert Stein, 52, will become a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Stein, who holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago, which is known for its conservative economics faculty, does not fit easily into any ideological category, claims: "I'm the conservatives' liberal and the liberals' conservative." He favors reliance on free markets, but at the same time believes the Government is responsible for avoiding the extremes of poverty. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and chief economic consultant for the Committee for Economic Development, a research organization...
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN is the best-known practitioner in the U.S. of that new specialty called ur-banology. As the recently appointed head of Richard Nixon's projected Cabinet-level Council on Urban Af fairs, he will have a hand in reshaping the nation's existing antipoverty programs. Judging from a book to be published by Macmillan in February, it will not be a gentle hand. In a searing indictment of Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, Moynihan contends that the much ballyhooed effort was oversold, underplanned and seriously "flawed" in execution. Writes Moynihan in the opening...
...sickness in American society that is dividing the nation into two classes, the poor and the not-poor. The division is especially sharp between the whites and the blacks. It may tear our country to pieces." To prevent this from happening, Richard Nixon has promised to create a Council on Urban Affairs with the same high White House priorities that only the National Security Council now commands. But it remains to be seen whether the council will wield sufficient power-or control sufficient funds-to make an impact on the problems of urbs and suburbs. The omens are not promising...
Barth grandly overlooked secular and theological developments that displeased him. Although he was one of the founders of the World Council of Church es, and his writings in the 1930s had helped create the climate for ecumenism, he later came to criticize the organization as "too institutionalist." Such aloofness from trends others thought relevant inevitably won him criticism. Reinhold Niebuhr, once something of a follower, dismissed Barth's politics as naive and his theology as suitable only for catacomb Christianity. Other contemporary theologians charged that Barth paid too little attention to the role of history and sociology...