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...welter of Jargon with which Mr. Rowsey lards his second paragraph does anything but add light to the discussion of this most serious of American economic problems; and his reference to statements by labor leaders is equally deceptive. To be sure, as recently as last week-end Mr. David MacDonald called for passage of the Bill, and the A.F.L.C.I.O. Convention in Miami received the President's address on it very generously. But it was at that same Convention that Representative Wilbur Mills asked the question I discussed in my article--why workers displaced by foreign competition should receive special attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABOR AND THE TRADE BILL | 6/4/1962 | See Source »

...them cry in their theological beer. Let them feed each other with their esoteric jargon. But let them recognize their theology of despair for what it is: abnormally introspective and unfruitful in its repeated affirmation of meaninglessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 18, 1962 | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

...sure of what they were doing either." Permission to Live. The community's theology ranges far from the orthodox, is wildly eclectic, although its teachers have borrowed much of their religious vocabulary from existentialism and from Harvard's Paul Tillich. Talk at the community is dense with jargon-the "over-againstness" of God, the "Christ-Event," "gatheredness" and "scatteredness." From the late Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the community has taken the Christian's utter commitment to life. Man, according to Austin Experimenter James Wagener, "gets cosmic permission to live out his life as a guilty man." God, says Wagener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Thereness of It All | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...architecture are diminished by "introducing numerous elements which the concern for perfection had either eliminated or condemned during the course of time." Philosophy, jealous of the progress of science, tries to "acquire something of science's prestige by dissimulating the meaninglessness of its task behind an incomprehensible jargon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The View from Afar | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...Viruses & a Microbe. Since the commonest victims of acute respiratory disease-ARD in medical jargon-are children, the PHS's vaccine program will be tailored for them. The first vaccines will be made from ten viruses-respiratory syncytial virus (the most important), three types of parainfluenza virus, six of adenovirus-and one non-viral microbe, the "Eaton agent" (TIME, Nov. 10). Together, these microbes are estimated to cause 60% of ARD cases judged to be severe enough to send most children into hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Uncommon Cold | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

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