Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were neighborhood kaffeeklatsches at which parents discussed ways of raising the moral standards of their teenagers. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy, who once taught economics and sociology at Roman Catholic colleges, lectured on the moral problems of political responsibility, while New York Attorney William Stringfellow, an Episcopal lay theologian, addressed the bar association on law, conscience, and civil rights...
...sort of feller who loved to talk about guns with the expertise of an Ian Fleming. "Now then, about that S & W you carry," said Wild Bill. "It is a handsome weapon, but the shells have a bad habit of erupting and jamming the chambers. I'd lay the piece aside and get me something else: a Colt's, with the Thuer conversion." Crabb reports that Hickok knew an hombre who carried a small pistol in his crotch. When cornered, the fellow would ask permission to relieve himself before dying, open his fly, and fire. "The trouble...
Behind his chiefs' backs, Wolff had met U.S. Superspy Allen Dulles to negotiate the early surrender of German troops in Italy, then arrested the Italian-front commander when he refused to lay down his arms. At Gmunden, by alternately threatening and charming fellow P.W. generals, Wolff became one of the Allies' most successful interrogators...
Similar objections were voiced by the lay-edited Catholic monthly Ramparts, the Episcopal journals the Witness and the Churchman, and the biweekly United Church Herald - although Dr. Ben Herbster, president of the United Church of Christ, later maintained that the magazine was not speaking for the denomination. Many other church journals seem to have lined up against Goldwater by implication. The Methodist student magazine Motive reprinted the entire Christianity and Crisis special issue dissecting Goldwater, while the Covenant Companion of the Evangelical Covenant Church published a story on the Century's stand; neither journal added comment or rebuttal...
About three weeks ago I took my little boy to watch the wreckers demolishing the houses on Garden Street. In the hole that used to be the basement of Everett House this battered old book lay churned up in the debris, exactly as it appears in the picture. As the only visible artifact in a scene of such general desolation, it seems to speak eloquently of the culture of a vanished way of life. Irwin Hyatt...