Word: lawson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defense, which played superlatively in several late-season contests last fall, has returned relatively intact. Considering the problems the Crimson may have up front it is reassuring to note the return of starting fullbacks Brian Fearnett, Steve Mead and Lawson Wulsin...
...guerrillas that provoked the angriest criticism of the council during the past few years and that apologists defended at the Geneva meeting. The discussion centered on a 13-page report on strategies for social justice prepared by a W.C.C. study group headed by Memphis Methodist Pastor James Lawson. The report saw three "options" open to contemporary Christians: 1) Nonviolent action as the only possibility consistent with obedience to Jesus Christ; 2) Accepting the necessity of violent resistance as a Christian duty in extreme circumstances, but applying to it criteria similar to those governing a "just war"; 3) Participation in already...
...report acknowledged that "too little attention has been given ... to the methods and techniques of nonviolence in the struggle for a just society." But Lawson noted that nonviolent tactics too often go unnoticed or unaided. Most violence in the world, he charged, is "structural"-the violence of "racism, militarism, hunger, exploitation of people, economic inequity, war, disease, and poverty." By contrast, "revolutionary violence is a tiny percentage-and a response to systematic violence." Indeed, said Swiss Pastor Clement Barbey, assistant to Potter, revolutionary violence has been the accepted answer to such oppression. "Are the Africans in Mozambique who fight...
Whatever their aims, their ideological effect on the Hollywood "product" was slight. John Howard Lawson (Action in the North Atlantic), chief ideologue among the writers, was finally reduced to such fatuities as advising Hollywood actors that even if they were only extras in a country-club scene, they could "do your best to appear decadent ... create class antagonism...
...speech and manners. Leslie Howard is an elegant Henry Higgins--we are so tempered to think of Rex Harrison in the role that it is amazing how quickly Howard's image shuffles Harrison out of our heads. Wendy Hiller is a vital and beautiful Eliza Dolittle, and Wilfrid Lawson is joyously seedy as her father. Arthur Honegger composed the musical score, so even if you miss Lerner and Loew, there are compensations...