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...further anarchisms of the "do it" ethic of Rubin and Hoffman. In the adolescence of 19th century Romanticism, the French Poet Theophile Gautier proclaimed: Plutot la barbarie que I'ennui. Now the American mood would reverse the formula: better boredom than that new barbarism. Says Sociology Professor Robert K. Merton of Columbia University: "What McGovern faces is a cumulative counterreaction to much of the mass protests of the last few years, and he is being penalized for them. He is representing the wave, in the short run, not of the future but of the recent past...
...representing the three major Lutheran denominations: the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. In all, the lengthy questionnaires answered by the respondents produced some 7,000,000 pieces of information. The four researchers who compiled it all, Lutheran Clergymen-Psychologists Merton P. Strommen, Milo L. Brekke and Ralph C. Underwager and University of Minnesota Sociologist Arthur L. Johnson, contend that the findings can be applied accurately to all 6,000,000 confirmed members of the three denominations...
...rather to what Hitch cock tellingly calls "spiritual sub-urbanization." The radical spiritual ness of the Church is very much outside of the mainstream of American pragmatism with its emphasis on GNP and incentive systems. What liberal Catholics have failed to see--and what the Fathers Berrigan and Thomas Merton and the Catholic Worker movement have--is that orthodox belief can lead very easily to a radical critique. Like the Kennedy liberals (a term which is too broad but nonetheless descriptive), the Catholic liberals confused elitism with democracy. What they've found out is that real change simply cannot...
...From the viewpoint of hagiography, the martyr is the ultimate Christian hero, the most noble of saints. Sociology, with a cooler eye, sees him as something else: a special kind of social deviant. As Sociologist Robert K. Merton points out, the "historically significant nonconformist," his own definition of martyr, often risks his life for a variety of motives, some noble, some not. There are cases, he notes, in which martyrdom may be little else than "an expression of primary narcissism" or "a need for punishment." Like Camus's Rebel, or Peter Viereck's "unadjusted man," the martyr...
Mountaineers along the borderline do not raise the issue often, since, according to Georgia Historian E. Merton Coulter. 81, "They pay taxes to one state one year and another the next and no taxes at all some years." Now Georgia State Legislator. Larry Thomason has earnestly set off with Geodetic Survey maps to claim Georgia's lost territories. Thomason has even planted a Georgia flag 500 yds. north of the accepted boundary. If Thomason's claim were to stick, the entire southern half of Chattanooga would sink into Georgia, and Tennessee's Senator William Brock would...