Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contemporary veto groups-ethnic, sectarian, regional, occupational-are more shapeless and more numerous than the old American interest groups, which had clear ideas about their goals. The new ones spread their pressures beyond the field of politics into, for instance, movie censoring. Their leadership is heavy with inside-dopesters. Their membership ranks are swelled by new-style indifferents, driven thence by well-meaning moralizers, who are always railing at the indifferents for not taking part in politics. Anxious to conform, the indifferent finds a group- but remains at heart an indifferent. Vetogroup leaders can manipulate the indifferents, but usually...
...Church Amid Racial and Ethnic Tensions," which will deal with the church's responsibility for reconciliation between races...
...eternal Buddha lies preserved within the Golden Pagoda at Luang Prabang the royal capital. It is believed to protect the Laotians from their enemies. Laos has been invaded by Tibetans, Mongols, Javanese Annamites, Indians, Chinese, Frenchmen and Khmers, but the craggy, mountainous state has survived with its ethnic unity just about intact. More than two-thirds of Its people are Laotians and related Thais. Its language is still its own native Thai. Its religion is still Buddhism. Even the French prefer to channel their rule through Laotian kings, and they have established their own purely administrative capital at Vientiane...
...award is given "for the best dissertation from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic approach, dealing with any means or measures tending towards the prevention of war and the establishment of universal peace...
...which the Assembly will divide itself into six commissions: 1) Our Oneness in Christ and Our Disunity as Churches, 2) The Mission of the Church to Those Outside Her Life, 3) The Responsible Society in a World Perspective, 4) Christians in the Struggle for World Community, 5) Racial and Ethnic Tensions, 6) The Laity: the Christian in His Vocation. The very fact that 161 Protestant and Orthodox communions can meet to discuss such themes, with some hope of agreement, is vivid testimony to how far the worldwide movement for church unity has marched...