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...needs a great deal of analysis. You can get a better word than face, no doubt, but the generalization I suggest here is that the Chinese are more face-conscious by far because of the way they are set up in their society. The stress on personal conduct, your outward action towards others as a basis upon which you are judged, comes straight down from the classics to the present day. This leads to a great concern about how you look. How you look is an indication of how you are doing. Is your conduct proper? Are you succeeding...
Instead, manifesto and declaratory action seem to be more appropriate for this time. Liturgy and ethic, made articulate in humane and political commitment, are the best inner and outward expressions of the power that is now largely nacent in the Church. The language of "must, if, may, and urge" which is the hortatory language of Confessions written in a time of failing faith, can be transformed into "have, did, shall, and join us." That is the language of manifesto...
...outward appearances, Rhodesia has remained unperturbed by six months of United Nations economic sanctions. The bustling capital of Salisbury is alive with fashion-conscious white shoppers. As before, parking is a problem. Car owners have had ample supplies of fuel furnished by the kindred regime of South Africa. And new factories, created since the crisis to take up the slack in imports, are producing more of everything from ballpoint pens to refrigerators. Now, however, a government announcement indicates that Rhodesia has, in fact, some very real troubles...
...STUDENT GOALS. "What we want to help create is a human order which allows for and encourages meaningfulness in our experiences demanding in dependence and tolerance; a society, moving not toward a narrow orthodoxy, but expanding outward, with room for all our personal values...
...grace" of Christian commitment "can be more readily sustained among a small group than in a large impersonal setting." Cosby also rejects activism for its own sake. "Just getting involved," he says, "is often a form of escape." The true Christian ministry, he believes, must be an "inward and outward" journey-meaning both spiritual pilgrimage toward God and dedication to the service of humanity for Christ's sake. "Reconciliation of man with God," says Cosby, "cannot exist outside the reconciliation of man with...