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...addition, the convening Missouri Synod Lutherans harked back the hundred years and wondered at the Synod's present size compared with its mustard-seed beginnings. Exclaimed the Rev. Dr. Arthur Brunn of Brooklyn: "Some said the new Synod was too straitlaced, too hidebound to live in the land of the free...
...Enlightened social engineering" was his classic enunciation of the goal before us and the sociological view of the law his outstanding contribution to American jurisprudence. Not hidebound by the attorney's dogmas, he probed behind them to see how they squared with actualities. To equate legal formulas with changing modern values, a new lead in thinking was demanded; he advanced a belief that laws are above men but that they must serve men and reflect the ethics under which men live in a moment of history. Thirty years ago he realized our path must lie in an ideal of cooperation...
...Disinherited. The one significant trend in Latin America today is the crumbling of social oligarchies as the disinherited elbow into the political arena. Hidebound regimes can resort only to repression to conjure the Communist menace (in Brazil this week the Army proclaimed an anti-Communist week). But social-minded democratic regimes, that could offer the masses an outlet for their aspirations, had less cause for alarm...
Nobody seems to care that only three-quarters of the Met's 3,500 seats have a full view of the stage. The Met's hidebound directors have kept out all Negro singers-including Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson. It may not be the Met's fault that opera is a declining art (the last first-rate popular opera was written in 1910), but the Met so far has done nothing to encourage the most promising opera composer of the day, England's young Benjamin (Peter Grimes) Britten (TIME...
Three days later, as Eric Johnston, 49, handed his gavel over to the Chamber's incoming new president, William Kenneth Jackson, 59, there was speculation on whether the Chamber wasn't also turning back to its old hidebound ways. In his four years as its head, Johnston had given the Chamber a patina of liberalism it had never had before. As its spokesman, he had probably made the most eloquent and effective exposition of the new social consciousness of many businessmen...