Word: niebuhr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Capitalism is dying," theologian Reinhold Niebuhr argued. "Let no one delude himself by hoping for reform from within." The American Communist Party believed its moment had come. "If I vote at all," social critic Lewis Mumford said, "it will be for the Communists." "The destruction of the Democratic Party," argued University of Chicago professor Paul Douglas (who would later become a pillar of the same party), "would be one of the best things that could happen in our political life." "The situation is critical," political analyst Walter Lippman warned Roosevelt two months before he took office. "You may have...
...plus shipping. Until about 1995, the company did most of its business with Mormons, who stockpile food as a principle of their faith. More recently, however, as much as 90% of sales have been to non-Mormons. "Y2K is driving the worry," says office manager Roslyn Niebuhr. Because monthly sales have zoomed from $300,000 in December 1977 to $4 million last November, the company has quadrupled its dealerships...
...Niebuhr's family accompanied him to Cambridge in 1965 and 1966. The family visited London, various castles and other historic sights on the weekends. Niebuhr's knowledge of history enhanced their travels, according...
...Richard Niebuhr is also the great-nephew of distinguished theological Reinhold Niebuhr, author of Interpretation of Christian Ethics...
...father influenced me in the way a parent can in terms of reading," says Gustav Niebuhr. "He really encouraged both fiction and nonfiction.... I gained a tremendous amount intellectually from him, for which I am very grateful...