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...legislative expense accounts of other liberals, lest he be typed as a too-big spender. He also worries about job security (says Brademas: "It's a matter of survival. We want to stay around. We aren't here just for an experiment"). Some bubbles in the Democratic ferment...
...since the Union government forbade blacks to drink anything alcoholic other than the watery government beer served in municipal bars, Zulu women have been brewing a crude moonshine of their own. A high-power popskull made of methylated spirits, carbide, potato peels or just about anything else that will ferment, this local version of skokiaan (called gavine) is often the only source of income for the "Shebeen Queens" who make it. Last week, when the Durban city council started transferring the people of Cato Manor to a new apartheid village farther away from town, the police moved in to smash...
Vice President Nixon's strong proposal that the U.S. lead in extending the rule of law to relations among nations (TIME, April 20) touched off ferment and comment in the major capitals of the free world. Last week a group of 26 Senators and Representatives-mostly liberal Democrats who have little else in common with Nixon-introduced concurrent resolutions in the House and Senate embodying their own proposals on how the rule of law might be achieved...
...postwar Germany, Tillich and a group of his fellow intellectuals gathered in Berlin's cafés to discuss the positive possibilities behind the ecstatic iconoclasm of Nietzsche, and to discover new meanings for religion in the great Danish Christian existentialist, Soren Kierkegaard. They saw the uncertainty and ferment around them as a time of kairos-a Greek word for the Scriptural "fullness of time" in which the eternal could penetrate the temporal order. Their prescription for the world was "Religious Socialism." Without a religious foundation, they insisted, "no planned society could avoid its eventual destruction." Not surprisingly, such...
Mustered in a hurry, the journalist army trained its eyes on the riotous color of Cuba in ferment. Rivers of copy surged onto the front pages, but the meaning of Cuba's sudden agony was left to deskbound editorial writers. They fired from the hip. Batista, the deposed tyrant, was condemned. Castro, the idealistic liberator, rated approving choruses, relieved only here and there by a suspicious question. In the next phase, as the tattoo of rebel firing squads stitched a new pattern on the face of Cuba, and the landscape was no longer boldly black and white, U.S. readers...