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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have stepped out of Central Casting. Director Ed Schearer of Washington's Du Mont station WTTG ranged two cameras along one wall, strategically placed a third behind the committee to pick up documents exchanged across the table and Senator McClellan's fancy doodlings. TV-savvy committee members often delayed proceedings by delivering politics-loaded orations geared to home-state audiences, but even this, wrote one viewer, "was better than soap opera." The committeemen were also TV-wise enough to save the top witnesses until last, sprang the taped phone conversations at precisely the proper dramatic moment, drowning...
...early, near-bloodless fight against the French and the ruling dynasty, Bourguiba said that French troops in Tunisia were "embarrassing" to him and "endangering the public order, acting as if they were at war with us or with the Algerian refugees in Tunisia." Although his answers in French were often cryptic in translation (by his 34-year-old son), his delivery was spirited, his hands always expressive. "Was he aiding the Algerians?" "Yes," said Bourguiba, his steely eyes flashing, "I help them . . . They are proving that they mean what they say when they say they prefer to be exterminated rather...
FREED FOR SERVICE IN THE WORLD: Love and compassion must be translated "into the structures of justice . . . We are also redeemed from the pressures of conformity. God's word often questions what our environment takes for granted. The Spirit gives us the courage to stand alone...
FREE AND UNITED IN HOPE: "Hope is a glorious 'must' for a church under pressure and persecution." But in times when such bracing persecution is replaced by good will, the "Church's spiritual integrity is often threatened. Therefore the Church is to be cleansed from all that would transform [it] into a society for the preservation and promotion of Christianity" and of whatever would transform Christianity itself into a mere "philosophy and ideology...
Morale v. Achievement. "Learning by doing"-a sound slogan at first-often came to mean concentrating on any activity provided it was not intellectual. Self-discipline sometimes meant no discipline at all, the emphasis on individual differences did away with objective standards, the stress on cooperation frequently turned out to be conformity to one's "peer group," and the idea that the school must educate the "whole child" led the school to take on all sorts of responsibilities that properly belong to the family. Perhaps the most debilitating doctrine of all is the notion that the child must...