Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miss Decter, a Harper's editor under Willie Morris, and in private life the wife of Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz, has chosen this perilous moment to announce, among other unspeakable things, that "every woman wants to marry." Worse-dare one even repeat it?-that woman's problem is not too little freedom but too much. For her pains, Midge Decter has already been called "neurotic," described as plumbing "new depths in the art of petty arrogance," and summarily notified she is "full of s-" in the letters column of the Atlantic, where an excerpt from her case against...
...contrast to the examples of some earlier campaigns--certainly of such famous ones as the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates. Those men answered questions from the audience, quizzed each other on facts, and courteously but staunchly defended their philosophies, not their bank accounts. Today, two 20th century politicians cannot or dare not present their ideas and inform America where they really stand...
CHUL must approve the film guidelines before they become binding, but the same pressures which killed the summer series may limit this Fall's House film dare...
This same mindlessness extended to Republican delegations. They voted as they were instructed to vote. No one dared to bolt from the fold--indeed they would not have been in Miami Beach in the first place if they did dare--and their week was one of idle frustration. Everything was settled before they arrived. Their role was predetermined and precisely scheduled. They fit neatly into the scenario, but beyond a certain point they became unneeded. For a small delegation there were no parties at luxurious Miami Beach homes, no visits with Party bigwigs. There was only a mid-priced hotel...
Trained at Jamaica's United Theological College and London University, Potter was pastor of a Methodist church in Haiti until 1954, when he joined the W.C.C.'s youth department. Haiti helped to mold his view that the word of God must be accompanied by social action. "How dare I go well fed to talk to hungry, unlearned people about the fact that they must be saved," he asks, "and not roll up my sleeves?" During the 1960s, he served a seven-year stint as field secretary for Africa and the West Indies for the British Methodist Missionary Society...