Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholic laymen, to Collegiate, a nondenominational school traditionally linked to the Dutch Reformed Church. One report says she balked at a recommendation that John be kept in second grade another year until he matures a bit; according to that story, he was often restless and inattentive in class. Others insist she was influenced by Leonard Bernstein, whose son Alexander is at Collegiate...
...report by the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Science, the experts mince no words about two costly sacred cows: manned interplanetary flight and redundancy of experiments. Funds now earmarked for manned programs, they insist, should be diverted to unmanned instrumented flights that are "capable of answering the major scientific questions that we can now pose about the planets." For flights beyond the moon, the report sees no current need for "the unique abilities of man," neither his on-the-spot reasoning nor his capability for unprogrammed reaction...
...full commitment to South Viet Nam. Over the past few weeks, as a lull in ground fighting continued, critics of the war have argued with increasing volume that the lull constituted Hanoi's concession toward peace. As a reciprocal step toward deescalation, they insist, the U.S. should halt all bombing of the North. Last week, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and President Johnson flatly rejected the notion that North Viet Nam had taken any such "political decision" toward a scaledown...
...methods of contraception, except rhythm, as against the will of God. The pronouncement caused perhaps the most serious outburst of dissent the Catholic Church has experienced in centuries. Innumerable Catholics made clear that they would refuse to heed the words of a reigning Pontiff. Theologians defied his authority to insist that the encyclical was not binding on married Catholics who have good reasons to practice birth control-and it was obvious that millions will continue...
Critics of the new encyclical are able to marshal some fairly impressive arguments against its logic. There are Catholic theologians today who reject the whole idea of natural law as e'ther philosophically untenable or inadequate as a way of interpreting God's mysterious ways. Still more insist that natural law must be constantly reinterpreted in light of man's expanding knowledge. Thus, some thinkers contend that the Pope's rejection of birth control because it interferes with procreation is based on a static and incomplete understanding of sexuality as a merely biological function. A complete...