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Unruffled in approving this major doctrinal adjustment, the Atlanta delegates poured most of their energy into a major overhaul of Methodism's labyrinthine system of national agencies. The other emotional issue was a Statement of Social Principles designed to update the venerable Methodist Social Creed and its E.U.B. counterpart. Here the conference cut back a relatively liberal draft version to fairly traditional lines. Where the proposed text said merely that sex is "most clearly" favorable within marriage, the final version avoids any implied endorsement of nonmarital sex. Where the proposed text affirmed that homosexuals are "persons of sacred worth...
...shuffles onto the home screen, blowzy, blinking, belly bulging, beer in one hand, cigar in the other. He trails mumbled epithets about practically every race, creed or color. He is Archie Bunker of the All in the Family show, the tube's quintessential boob, who each week shrivels bigotry with laughter. Yet to the editors of Focus, the Teamsters' official newsletter, Archie, like the anti-hero of the movie Joe, is just another example of how TV and the press distort the image of the working man. In a recent issue, an editorial thunders: "For some reason...
...Sterner enforcement of the equal employment provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. When the bill was before Congress, a Southern opponent frivolously added sex to the standard list of race-creed-color conditions for which no one could be denied a job. Pressure from women's groups led the Government to issue guidelines prohibiting the use of "Help Wanted-Male" and "Help Wanted-Female" rubrics in the classified advertising sections of the nation's newspapers. However, women's rights advocates have found their greatest leverage against employment discrimination in the enforcement of executive orders. Under...
...several antibusing Congressmen to score oratorical points for the folks back home, Celler turned to the most prominent of the amendment versions. As suggested by New York's first-term Republican Congressman Norman Lent, the amendment would provide that "no public school student shall, because of his race, creed or color, be assigned to or required to attend a particular school." Lent proved a weak witness; Virginia's conservative Republican Richard Poff, whom Nixon has wanted to nominate to the Supreme Court, questioned the ambiguity of the language. "I don't have the best lawyers working...
Madness threatens to become the fashion in the arts, not as the stuff of drama and melodrama (it has always been that) but as an aesthetic creed. Some of the best, as well as some of the worst, novelists of the '70s are carrying out French Surrealist Andre Breton's definition of art as "a cry of the mind against itself." In Luke Rhinehart's The Dice Man, a psychiatrist systematically freaks out, illustrating the advantages of what might be termed "planned madness." In Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Doris Lessing suggests that madmen...