Word: passivist
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...ambiguous. Is it just people's frustration with the politics of a movement that has not yet succeeded that generates their appreciation? Is it that Dylan continues to sing in the comforting voice, however poetic, of the middle class white man? Does his message lie in the passivist, more than the pacifist strain in his music? Or does Dylan's appeal still lie in the undercurrent of moralism, the attractiveness of a message like that of "Blowin' in the Wind," the song with which he chose to begin the evening concert's second half? The one time Dylan attempted manifesto...
THUS, in a cover story on Buddhism 16 months ago, did the editors appraise the little-known, shadowy figure who last week emerged-big. That earlier story, "Buddha on the Barricades," examined the faith and its activist-passivist syndrome and warned that it is a force to be reckoned with. With the reckoning now nearer at hand, Tri Quang became the cover this week...
Opposing the "passivist" doctrine of Tocsin, Doak argued that conciliatory efforts like the U.N. are "dying," and that disarmament would be "more or less suicidal," because the U.S. and Russia have "no basis for trust...
TIME points up this controversy very clearly: "There is a great gulf between U.S. activism and continental Europe's apparently passivist theology." Oxnam represents the conviction of the New World that man can "work out his own salvation with fear and trembling" . . . Thank you for featuring the "working" Christianity of Oxnam for a change...
...these questions Amsterdam met an even stiffer stalemate than on its attempt to define the word "church." There is a great gulf between U.S. activism and continental Europe's apparently passivist theology. Most U.S. Christians, as shown by Bromley Oxnam's tireless example, believe in muscular, active Christianity-serving their faith by works. To U.S. liberal Protestantism, most European Christians have a let-George-do-it reliance...
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