Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong with the police, but what citizens can do to help. For all its Birchite origin, there is no real alternative to the right-wing slogan, "Support your local police." In its proper definition, support would mean paying higher taxes for higher wages to attract better policemen, and for modern equipment to match modern tasks. It would also mean a constant concern for constitutional rights-and utmost respect for the cop who guards freedom as zealously as he upholds order...
...submarines appeared in the Indian Ocean for the first time last winter, and only last week the helicopter carrier Moskva turned up in the Mediterranean. That, declared U.S. Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations, is "visible evidence of Russia's announced intention to be come a modern major offensive sea power...
...cast was familiar: an immovable government pitted against students suddenly intoxicated with their own force. The setting was Mexico City, bedecked with flags for the Olympics that were to show Mexico's modern, progressive face to the world. What was different about last week's cops-and-students scenario was that Mexico City's antagonists did their arguing with guns...
...renewal within the church. A Flem ish Belgian who teaches at the University of Nijmegen, he was a major influence on the revolutionary and highly popular "Dutch Catechism" .(TIME, Dec. 1). His voluminous writings, all of which have been published with episcopal imprimaturs, blend insights from Thomas Aquinas and modern existentialists, and his opinions are frequently provocative. He believes, for example, that Mary's perpetual virginity is symbolic rather than a biological fact. The resurrection, he suggests, does not imply the physical recomposition of Jesus' body, but "the impact of his personality on his disciples and his presence...
...reticence of the people. They just won't talk to anyone unless they know him quite well. Many have been imprisoned for long periods for seemingly trivial offenses. The papers carried word of a man convicted of subverting the state because he played a record by Theodorakis, the greatest modern Greek composer, who happens to be a communist. A similar five year sentence was delivered against a man who had spoken out against the colonels on a public street...