Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plain Account. To skeptics who doubt that courts can ever control passions between nations, A.B.A. discussion of integration rulings was a lesson, for it demonstrated the faith of U.S. lawyers in law as the means of achieving racial justice in the face of awesome strain. In one of the plainest accounts yet of the precedents that, case by case, led the Supreme Court to overturn the separate-but-equal doctrine (Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896), Attorney General William P. Rogers calmly laid down the law, left no doubt that defiant acts against integration would again be handled firmly. "The ultimate issue...
Everyone, it seemed, found something to welcome in the pause. Lebanese on all sides, rebel, progovernment, or in between, hailed the unanimous Assembly action. Why anyone should put faith in Egypt's reaffirmation of pledges it had systematically broken was not clear. Anyway, Jordan shut off its radio war against Egypt and hoped Cairo would reciprocate. Hussein, who only a year ago had accepted Egyptian command of his army after driving out the British, said he hoped to resume diplomatic relations with the nation that called him traitor. Some diplomats thought that Nasser would think twice about inheriting...
...decided to recant. Although he pleads throughout his narrative against "Popish superstitions"-including prayers to the saints-he nevertheless made a pilgrimage to Loreto to test his strength as heretic. He had already half decided to renounce Rome and become a Protestant. If, he reasoned, he prayed in bad faith before the image of Our Lady of Loreto, surely it would blush or sweat. But the image made not a sign...
...student's faith was supposed to extend to 1,000 or more herbs, minerals, metals and even precious stones listed in the ayurvedic pharmacopoeia. (The gems were once favored by the practitioners who list themselves in India's telephone books as "sex splst," were supposed to increase virility. With the republican leveling-down, few patients can afford ground-up precious stones, or even pearls. So they settle for sea shells. But they still flock to the ayurvedic sex splst...
Move en Masse? The ayurveda students found that they had no faith in such teachings, and they struck, protesting that they could not live half East and half West and demanding admission to medical school on a fulltime basis. "We are the world's most confused people," wailed one. Dr. Sampurnanand replied by setting up a commission with himself as chairman, and the commission decided that ayurvedic and Western medicine would not mix. Conclusion: the students would have to drop their Western studies. With that, two ayurveda students began hunger strikes. Responding to this form of protest, made classical...