Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After touring Europe for the past four months, seeing magnificent cathedrals, many situated in filthy poverty areas, I can say only one thing about Daniel Moynihan's remark: if the money that was spent on cathedrals in 20 centuries of Christianity (which came from the poor, directly or indirectly) had been used to help the poor, there may not have been three summers of rioting. Christianity's retreat from the humbleness that Jesus preached into self-glorifying magnificence has gone on long enough...
Some critics urge the Federal Government to do the insurance industry a favor and take over the auto-accident business entirely. Urban Specialist Daniel P. Moynihan, who chairs a federal auto-safety advisory committee, suggests a federal insurance system modeled on workmen's compensation, with awards made strictly on the basis of loss rather than fault. "Financing such a system," he argues, "might be the easiest part of all." Some $3.4 billion a year in gasoline taxes is already being spent to build the Interstate Highway System. When the system is finished in 1973, Moynihan would simply raise...
...writers who have for so long dominated the editorial pages of our country's newspapers." He even had a kind word for certain liberals. "I have a strong feeling that a new liberal philosophy will grow in this country based more upon the thinking of men like Daniel Moynihan and Max Lerner...
...conflict between service to man and obeisance to God. "I do not believe that not building a cathedral is going to solve the problems of the ghettos," says Georgia Baptist Layman C. H. Lampin. "On that philosophy nothing beautiful would ever be created at any cost." Even Urbanologist Daniel Moynihan deplored Bishop Donegan's decision to stop work on St. John's. "Three summers of rioting and out goes 50 years of zoning," he said. "Twenty centuries of Christianity and we conclude that in a time of moral crisis we will cease work on the most splendid place...
...Moynihan also argues that "an era of great public works is as much needed in America as any other single element in our public life." If that is true, there is certainly no reason why the churches should not contribute their share-and Archbishop McGucken wisely notes that San Francisco "would become terribly secular without some skyline recognition...