Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last June, when Kuchel was campaigning against Barry Goldwater's candidacy in the California presidential primary, a vicious document was circulated around the state. It purported to be an affidavit signed by a Los Angeles police officer and saying that in 1949 he had arrested Kuchel, then state controller, on a drunkenness charge. But that was only the beginning. The document went on to say that when arrested, Kuchel had been in the midst of an act of sexual perversion. Kuchel's fingerprints, the document said, had been sent...
...document that inspired the convocation is one of the great encyclicals of the century. Unusually long for a papal pronouncement-more than 15,000 words-Pacem in Terris was issued by John XXIII on April 11, 1963, less than two months before his death. It was the last of his eight encyclicals, the first in history addressed not only to the bishops and laity of the Roman Catholic Church but to "all men of good will...
...reinterpreted in each age in the light of increasing knowledge. For the first time in Presbyterian church history, the new confession gives the church a specific social mission, committing it to integration, defending interracial marriage, and calling for the preservation of peace and the abolition of poverty. The document is called the Confession of 1967 because even if it is adopted by the 177th annual general assembly in Columbus next May, it will have to be approved by two subsequent assemblies and ratified by two-thirds of the 193 presbyteries...
...accepted by most Christians. The Westminster Confession will thus be de-emphasized and set in its historical place as the expression of 17th century Presbyterianism. "A confession is not a monument, but the tool for the present mission of the church. It is not good Calvinism to let one document stand for three centuries," says Church Historian Dowey...
...Griffith's ideas were politically naive," she continued, "but the movie is a master-piece. It brought the motion-picture industry out of the nickelodeon stage. We are presenting it as an artistic document...