Word: monolithism
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...height of a two thousand-year development of imperial monarchy. Chairman Mao doesn't seem to know it, but he owes something of his style and world view to his predecessors in Peking in ages past. Since we have now given up calling Communism a great international monolith, everywhere and always the same, it is high time for us to examine the Chineseness which is now showing through the Communism in Peking...
Unbound by church control, the magazine takes its stand with considerable passion, and almost always on the liberal and ecumenical side. At a time when most other Protestant magazines suspiciously viewed Roman Catholicism as a formidable monolith, C & C was inviting Catholic contributors to explain the church's views on issues that caused interfaith tensions. One article two years ago by Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity School suggested that it was time for Protestants to re-examine their attitude of total opposition to premarital sex. Another, by Pastor Howard Moody of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church, proposed...
...Rock." The term has been a designation for many places by men suffering from civic disability-Alcatraz, Guam, Oahu-but the old original Rock was Gibraltar, that whale-headed monolith that was a minor prize and major symbol of the British Empire in its grandest days. Mocked the anti-imperialist Catholic poet Chesterton: "Gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain, and attached to its base is the district of Spain...
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Back to the Monolith. The bombing of North Viet Nam, writes Morgenthau, has thrown the Soviet Union into "despair, alarm and exasperation, most keenly felt by those identified with a policy of peaceful coexistence with the U.S. They declare themselves to be fighting with their backs to the wall, barely holding their own against the growing influence of the faction that favors the hard line of Chinese." The Soviet Union cannot be expected to sit back and accept the destruction of North Viet Nam, Morgenthau argues. "Every target hit weakens not the resolution of Hanoi to unify Viet Nam under...