Word: information
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Episcopal convention, was quoted [Sept. 19] as saying, "Our church is a Reformation church in fact." It would seem that Mr. Taft is a bit confused if he meant that his church was conceived in the Reformation. A study of English church history and Anglican theology would inform him that the Episcopal Church is in fact a reformed Catholic Church. There is a difference...
...about 10 p.m. I announced that the boy was rapidly dying. The President sprang from his chair and took his dying son in his arms, shouting hysterically into his ears that he would soon join him in the great beyond, and requesting that young Calvin so inform his grandmother (the mother of the President). A medallion of the grandmother was also placed in the hands of the dying boy . . . The boy died...
...that the public expects its poets to be "boisterous, dissolute, sometimes repellent." If it is the literate public you have in mind, I hasten to inform you that it expects nothing of the kind. On the contrary, it demands that a poet be a gentleman, in the most significant sense of the word. Lice and low company, added to booze and borrowed breeches, are the marks of the charlatan, not the true poet...
Refusal to inform solely on grounds of conscience and moral duty has been defended most eloquently by Barth. "A witness who feels certain that the persons with whom he was associated in the party were as idealistic and misguided as himself, and were as innocent of espionage or sabotage or any criminal activity, can in good faith refuse to expose them to odium and humiliation. He writes, "if these persons have left the party and established respectable positions for themselves which would be destroyed by his disclosures, he can understandably be unwilling to offer them and their families...
Perhaps in the final analysis, however, the question of an individual's refusal to inform on grounds of conscience is a theological one. To be sure, no moral theology offers explicit maxims to guide the decisions of a witness, but all lay down borad base lines...