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...Action. The Administration's emphasis on economy fairly guarantees that there will be no "Nixon domestic program" worthy of the name for the foreseeable future. Head Start, about which Nixon is enthusiastic, appears safe. The Job Corps is in disfavor, but will be retained, on a somewhat reduced scale until an alternative is worked out. Programs to subsidize hiring of hardcore unemployed will be expanded...
...school for the mentally retarded. In 1911, he visited India on a spiritual quest. World War I was a "gut, emotional, experience" for Hesse; renouncing German authoritarianism, he joined the pacifist Romain Rolland in writing antiwar tracts, and as a result fell into political, social and literary disfavor...
Ambivalent Eater. Back home, however, Harris is in some disfavor. Though he will not have to run again until 1972, he has aroused the enmity of Oklahoma conservatives, who condemn his position on race and civil rights. Critics call him "politically ambivalent" because he "has lunch with Johnson and dinner with Bobby Kennedy"-which, occasionally, he does, and which is only one indication of his savvy, eupepsia and party loyalty...
Schleiermacher fell into theological disfavor after World War I, largely because of the neo-Orthodox revolt against religious liberalism led by Switzerland's Karl Barth. In Barth's view, Schleiermacher had turned theology into anthropology by starting with man's experience rather than the divine imperative of the Bible and God's objective revelation in Christ. Not all thinkers who followed in Barth's wake agreed. The late Paul Tillich argued for the existence of God as an inwardly felt "ground of being," and readily acknowledged his debt to Schleiermacher...
MEMOIRS: 1925-1950, by George F. Kennan. During a crucial quarter-century of American-Russian relations, Diplomat Kennan was in official disfavor first for being too harsh toward the Soviets, then for being too soft; by hindsight, he was right more often than wrong...