Word: maurin
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...chairman of Brown's undergraduate Election Committee, Joseph M. Maurin, said that he believes students supported the referendum to attract attention to Brown. "I think those who were backing it did so because of all the media attention," the senior said...
With a new interest in salvation, Dorothy Day had Tamar baptized in a Roman Catholic church. "Grimly, coldly making acts of faith," she felt "like a hypocrite." She did not discover what acts of faith meant until she met an obstinate, self-educated French peasant named Peter Maurin. He believed that a Christian bore witness by simple, direct response to the immediate needs of the oppressed...
Their social philosophy was neither Communist nor capitalist-nor overly lucid. Among its elements: rigid pacifism opposition to the revolutionary class struggle, acceptance of private property but with industry owned by workers and generally, the less government the better. Day and Maurin called it Christian "anarchism...
...goal, Maurin said, was "a society in which it is easier for people to be good...
Still she longed to find some way of applying her new faith to help the poor. In the depths of the Depression, she met a wandering French philosopher-laborer named Peter Maurin. On May Day 1933 to challenge their church's social conservatism, they launched the monthly Catholic Worker (price per copy, to this day 1?). Circulation reached 150,000 by 1936 (though...