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...college-age Volunteers, the physical hardships turn out not to be a problem: if anything, the reverse, since such hardships provide a self-evident obstacle and one that is readily surmounted. The graver hazards are emotional and inter-personal. They may include the risk to one's psychic balance of living at once alone and in a crowd for two years; the risk to one's self-confidence in encountering one's first significant failure after years of success at home and in school; the risk to one's sense of values of coming to question, in a strange environment...
...much graver danger growing out of the Dow debate is that discipline will be the University's first, last and only reaction. A genuinely democratic three-way committee-with its student contingent chosen by students--would be a small but meanigful complement to last week's harsh punishment...
...presidency. "Big Minh," who led the 1963 coup against Ngo Dinh Diem but was ousted as chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council only three months later, retains wide popular appeal. The generals quickly decided to keep him out of the country. Then they turned to an even graver problem-the feud between General Thieu (pronounced Choo), a phlegmatic, 44-year-old career soldier who is known as a shrewd ma- nipulator, and Air Vice-Marshal Ky, a flamboyant, 36-year-old pilot with a penchant for power...
Brownie Points. An even graver charge is that in much of Protestantism -including many of the churches that bear Luther's name-his central insight into the primacy of faith has been lost in a bog of building campaigns, service agencies, relief programs and other church-instigated "good works." American Christianity, charges Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty, has fallen back on precisely the kind of spiritual error that the Reformation was designed to combat. The typical parishioner, adds Marty's colleague at the University of Chicago, Theologian Brian Gerrish, feels that he has "done something that puts...
There are seven suicides in the Bible, from Samson to Judas, and neither the Old Testament nor the New specifically forbids it, as does the Koran, which calls suicide "a much graver crime than homicide." But St. Augustine condemned it as "a detestable and damnable wickedness," perhaps to put a stop to a growing tendency of extremist Christians to seek instant sainthood via self-martyrdom. From the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century in Europe, self-murder was stigmatized by the full force of church and state-a suicide's property was confiscated, his body...