Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyone is enough of a struggle. Human beings need a religion based on compassion and understanding, as opposed to one that emphasizes the threat of hell. Catholicism will truly be tried when it unshackles the compact majority and forces it to make its own decisions on matters of faith and morals. The hierarchy may discover that this majority would indeed be harder on itself than the institution would ever dare...
...assassinations and a disheartening election have not openly affected Goodwin's faith in politics. He paused over the name Kennedy while discussing political violence and, as McCarthy used to do, ended his speech with a poem from John Brown's Body. But Goodwin seems to rely less on the success of a single candidate than on his hope for a re-formed progressive coalition...
...SLIGHTLY CYNICAL, Goodwin's solution may seem based more on faith than on sound strategy. Local regulatory agencies can hardly match the financial or legal power of corporations that value profit more than zoning, productivity more than preserving jobs. Regulation of corporate giants may require government that is equally powerful. Moreover C. Wright Mills may be right. Intertwined leadership in government and business may make impossible any serious regulation of industrial expansion. Further, to finance regulatory programs will require an active Congress. There is little hope of changing the conservative legislative balance so long as Congressional races are decided more...
...always wanted to write a play about the Pope and Galileo," Goodwin continues, "in which the Pope emerges as the hero. What difference does it make that we know the earth moves around the sun if it destroys our faith?" Technology must be accepted, but to generate the leadership and community organization capable of its control is the purpose of Richard Goodwin's rhetorical flourishes...
...universal souls thrashing about in the torpid light of Art. Let us ublimate the manifold contradictions of life in an decipherable moment of ineffable unity. And so, rowing Endgame on top of Presidential Power, and ling the ineluctable pull of some Taoist-Maoist dooms against my Captain Shotover-Thomist faith, I ded for Sanders to hear the Stravinsky Mass, and oral works by Britten and Dello Joio in honor of the atron saint of music...