Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later Casement investigated conditions on the rubber plantations of the Putumayo Valley in Peru and found horrors of mutilation and murder even more shocking than those of the Congo. He was a man of passionate idealism and undoubted courage. Joseph Conrad thought him "a limpid personality" with "a touch of the conquistador in him." After Casement resigned from the consular service in 1913, he was caught up in Ireland's seething demand for home rule, denouncing Britain as the "bitch and harlot of the North...
These days, even in a magazine like Commentary, which is dedicated to intellectual surprise, it is surprising to find a kind word for J. Edgar Hoover, who has been enduring his worst press in 41 years as boss of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But Washington Columnist Joseph Kraft rises to the defense with a thoughtfully reasoned brief. "To critics, Mr. Hoover is the advance guard of the police state," says Kraft in Commentary's February issue. "To boosters, he is the modern knight errant. For better or worse, he is made to cast a shadow larger than life...
Divine Imperative. Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge thought that no sexual relationship should be absolutely condemned by the church, which at the least ought to be less scandalized about teen-age promiscuity in urban slums. The new morality, he said, would certainly approve of an Episcopal priest in New York who provides contraceptives for a gang of delinquents he attempts to serve...
...station is being purchased by a group of sophomore radio enthusiasts, with the help of a $200 loan from the House Committee, according to Joseph Blanchard '67, a spokesman for the group. The rest of the money will be put up by interested students, and an attempt to repay the loan by soliciting throughout Winthrop House will be made. "We would really like to make this a house function, rather than something for a select few," Blanchard said...
...rules of the United States Senate not be amended to permit cloture filibuster by vote of a majority of members, Joseph Cooper '55, professor of Government, told the committee on Standing Rules of the yesterday morning...