Word: freer
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...race, or a culture, or a religion, but an inextricable mixture of all these. No other ethnic group has a religion that is so centered, in its very rituals and prayers, on a particular land. Many American Jews have long worried about the "crisis of freedom"; being freer in the U.S. than in any other country in history, with government, the professions and all walks of life open to them, the concern was that Jews would forget their traditions and simply merge with the population. Where the ghetto served to preserve Judaism, it was feared the American suburb might subtly...
...have been accused of having in effect prolonged the cold war by pressing for freer emigration of Soviet Jews. What is your response...
...When I'm doing this I'm more interested in people than issues--only people-connected issues, but not issues," Schroder says. "I get incredible satisfaction from the union. It's incredibly satisfying to see people becoming less isolated and freer. I've found friends here. I can see people starting to lose their fear. Before the union, when secretaries would get together they would talk about recipes, or new dresses, or who they were going out with. Now people talk about their real feelings...
Resentments between traditionalists and those who advocate freer scriptural interpretation helped to cause schism a year ago among Southern Presbyterians in the U.S. The Roman Catholic Church is increasingly beset by similar quarrels. Last March, Bishop James Rausch, a progressive who is general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, publicly censured several conservative columnists who had questioned the orthodoxy of some current U.S. Catholic biblical scholarship...
Early Knowledge. The opening gambit of Ehrhlichman's defense backfired as his attorneys asked Sirica to call Charles W. Colson, imprisoned for his role in trying to defame Daniel Ellsberg, as a court witness. That allowed freer questioning and Colson promptly gave damaging testimony against Mitchell, Haldeman and even Ehrlichman. He helped Ehrlichman only in contending that an aborted White House effort to have Hunt leave the country before his arrest was John Dean's idea, not Ehrlichman...