Word: elected
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...problem that has Jack Kennedy seriously worried is the condition of the faction-ridden, scandal-tarred Democratic Party in Massachusetts. Last year the President-elect carried his home state with ease-while Republicans won the statehouse and kept their Senate seat. Convinced that things are likely to get worse before they get better, Jack Kennedy is now thinking of Brother Bobby as the man to take charge of the housecleaning, by eventually running for Governor rather than for Jack's old Senate seat...
...attach to Latin America an importance second only to defense," he said time and again. Last week, only a few days before Inauguration, President-elect Kennedy was still without an Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs-and not for lack of trying. After two months of beating the bushes, the hunt was so badly thwarted that he was forced to ask the Eisenhower Administration incumbent, Thomas C. Mann, to stay on temporarily until the right man could be found...
Brain Tryst. The day is gone when Henry Ford boasted: "It is one to me whether a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard." Kennedy's Cambridge-on-the-Potomac includes 17 high Harvard-men besides the President-elect. Four are Cabinet members-designate: Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon ('31), Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara (Business School '39), Postmaster General J. Edward Day (Law '38) and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ('48). Others include former Harvard Law School Dean James M. Landis, reformer of regulatory agencies, Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Nitze ('28), Federal Housing...
...theory of cyclical immortality, he justified the idea of pre-existence (inimical to the Christian doctrine of creation) by maintaining that "we existed before the foundation of the world; because we were destined to be in Him, we preexisted in the sight of God." By "we," Clement meant the elect. Clement borrowed the Platonic idea of the superiority of the soul to the body-"the body tills the ground and hastens to it, but the soul presses on to God. Trained in the true philosophy, it hastens to its relatives above." The function of the church, thought Clement...
Clement's answer, writes Theologian Pelikan, "provides a good opportunity to watch the Christian and the classical doctrines of man in combination and collision." Just as the body is not an inferior but a worthy thing, wrote Clement, so the Christian must not despise the world. "The elect man dwells as a sojourner . . . The body, too, as one sent on a distant pilgrimage, uses inns and dwellings by the way. It has care of the things of the world, of the places where it stops; but it leaves its dwelling place and property without excessive emotion...