Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the devout Begin bent his faith's strictures somewhat and engaged in tripartite rounds, which to avoid criticism in Israel were labeled "informal gatherings for nonpolitical reasons." Noting that everyone at the summit was willing to compromise his religious obligations for the sake of the talks' success, an Israeli participant explained, "If a Jew is aboard a ship which begins listing, what is the first thing he throws overboard? The answer is his prayer shawl and phylacteries. That is what has happened here at Camp David...
Solzhenitsyn in turn has a deep religious faith in a Truth operating in the political system. The humanist Western mind, however, finds it impossible to accept this trust, because it believes that any political "Truth" can only be a working hypothesis, defined by those who happen to be in political or economic power at the time. Such a Truth carries with it the roots of oppression...
...second consensus, resisted to the end by some members of the Curia, was that the church, whatever its farflung political and administrative problems, needed a pastoral Pope. "It is one thing to interpret the faith and another to convey it to the people in the parishes," said one ranking Curia prelate. "That is something that the bishops-whatever their theology-understand better than the Curialists at their little desks...
...great masses of Americans. One week before his murder in Los Angeles, while pursuing his party's 1968 presidential nomination, R.F.K. was defeated by Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon Democratic primary, the first loss ever sustained by a Kennedy in a general election. The defender of the faith now tries to even the score. Writes Schlesinger: "Oregon [is] a pleasant, homogeneous, self-contained state filled with pleasant, homogeneous, self-contained people, overwhelmingly white, Protestant and middle class. Even the working class was middle class, with boats on the lakes and weekend cabins in the mountains...
...than most people, far more opportunity to enlarge his choices and control his existence. This made his obligation to help all who had been wronged the more acute and poignant. Robert Kennedy at last traveled in that speculative area where doubt lived. He returned from the dangerous journey, his faith intact, but deepened, enriched. From Aeschylus and Camus he drew a sort of Christian stoicism and fatalism: a conviction that man could not escape his destiny, but that this did not relieve him of the responsibility of fulfilling his own best self . . . Life was a sequence of risks. To fail...