Word: lukewarm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slap for Kwame. There was polite applause, but much of the audience was lukewarm to the ambitious scheme. Malagasy's President Philibert Tsiranana replied candidly: "You cannot decree a text for African unity. Many of our states are not mature enough." Urging a slower, step-by-step approach, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the able Prime Minister of Nigeria, Africa's most populous state (42 million, six times Ghana's population), took the opportunity to spank Nkrumah for his notorious meddling in his African neighbors' affairs. "Unity cannot be achieved as long as African countries continue subversion...
...there were such a mad rush," says Barclays Bank Vice Chairman Ronald Thornton. Small trades men also disliked the idea of having to cash a flurry of checks, fear that they will become stickup targets if forced to keep larger sums of cash on hand. Employers, too, were lukewarm to the whole idea, since writing out checks means more work making up payrolls...
Stevenson, with his great prestige and abilities, is the ideal representative to the United Nations. Yet Kennedy has made only lukewarm efforts to affirm his support of Stevenson. Salinger's press statement was weak, the President's letter to Stevenson was unconvincing and Kennedy showed little warmth towards Stevenson at the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation dinner. The President lost another chance to clarify his position on Stevenson at his press conference yesterday afternoon. If he does not act soon, Stevenson's reputation and effectiveness will be permanently impaired...
...worldwide ecumenical dialogue. Barth has always insisted that dogma is important, that theology is not philosophy, that Christianity is not the spiritual side of politics. The mysteries of God's Word are hard ones-but they cannot be made more palatable to nonbelievers or to the lukewarm faithful by hiding them in the language formed by man's own wishful thinking. God speaks; man must listen. And Barth summons Goethe to warn the church...
Such contradictions abounded in an age whose propriety fostered its concealments. There was tremendous churchgoing, but lukewarm churchgoers, and a very worldly church: a future bishop examined candidates for Holy Orders while waiting to bat at cricket. And behind middle-class pomposity and plush cowered lower-class poverty and suffering: girl apprentices working a 20-hour day, girl coal miners standing in water up to their thighs...