Word: mindedness
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The first two White House Conferences on Aging were gatherings of generally like-minded advocates, assembled at federal expense to lobby the Federal Government for more money for the elderly. In 1961 the conference helped build momentum for the passage of Medicare and Medicaid. The 1971 session spurred Congress to...
Ratzinger did not always see things that way. During the Second Vatican Council he was the most eloquent member of a troika of progessive German theological experts (with Karl Rahner and Hans Küng). In that era the reform-minded priest called the office he will now head "detrimental...
"The entire exercise is one that leaves me very cold indeed," said President Bok, referring to this damaging commercial spirit that taints the high-minded goals of higher education. And indeed Bok, as a leader of American education, has every right to lament last week's developments. But whether, as...
Barcarola is dedicated to the late Paul Dessau, a German composer who shared Henze's Marxism. Henze's political beliefs stem from his upbringing in Nazi Germany and his experiences as a soldier in World War II, a background, he says, that "was sufficient to create a politically...
Walt justifiably complains that the single Soviet representative to the Harvard conference, diplomat Yuri Kaprolov, presented a one-sided, and largely incorrect, history of the arms race. But Walt does not add that other speakers were quick to express similar skepticism at the time. Because the audience demonstrated a naive...