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...executive editor Samuel M. ("Sol") Levitas, "Don't expect to profit from the truth," Kolatch tries to pay younger contributors $25 to $50 an article, but he can still count on snagging the likes of exiled Spanish Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga, Economist Adolf A. Berle and Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr for nothing...
Triviality, said Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, 70, is the great problem of the modern church. It means "Protestants worrying about Catholics' playing bingo or electing a President, and Catholics worrying about artificial contraception in a world faced with a population explosion. It means "every disproportionate concern with the minutiae of religious observance, ecclesiastical organization and sectarian tradition at a time when a whole generation is passing through a world revolution...
...anyone could be, the choice of the Democratic Party's regular organization, an uneasy alliance of local bosses split by national origin (Irish v. Italian) and geography (greater Boston v. western Massachusetts). Eddie was also the favorite of Massachusetts' intellectual community. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (a visiting professor at Harvard), and Harvard Law Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe joined to declare that "Teddy has been aptly described as a 'fledgling in everything except ambition...
Also among the undecided, Richard R. Niebuhr '47, associate professor of Theology, said he was "uneasy" over the possibility of still another Kennedy in high office. But like others polled, Niebuhr felt that the Democratic candidate's chances "look pretty good as of right...
Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, repeated Niebuhr's prediction of a likely Kennedy victory ("it's a magic name in this state") and added that Kennedy would be an "acceptable senator if elected...