Word: pendulums
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Total Society. Augustine, indeed, is a thorn in Johnson's side. For Johnson sees Christian history largely as a pendulum, swinging between the repressive "total society" envisioned by Augustine and the individualistic, more private Christianity espoused by Pelagius and like-minded successors-particularly the great irenic humanist of the early Reformation, Erasmus of Rotterdam. The political analogies are not coincidental. Johnson believes that men can be self-governing. He sympathizes with the views of Erasmus and Pelagius. Indeed, he argues, the essential optimism of such humanists is closer to the message of the Apostle Paul than the deep pessimism...
...COURTS. They have gone too far. Federal Judge Arthur Garrity is sitting in Boston making decisions that the court ought not to make. He has just taken over. But I also worry about the pendulum's swinging the other way, the Supreme Court's repealing Brown v. Board of Education, for instance...
...seeking through tough talk to offset what he considers a damaging U.S. policy failure. (The Soviets promptly stepped up their personal attacks on him.) He defended detente and criticized Congress for interfering too much in the Administration's conduct of foreign policy. "It was clear the pendulum swung too far [toward the Administration] in the 1960s," he said. "It's equally clear it is now swinging too far the other way." While Congress can set basic policy guidelines, he feels it lacks the means for "executing a coherent, consistent, comprehensive policy." Kissinger could not resist taking another...
...Embree (6 ft. 10 in.), John Mc-Cullock (6 ft. 7 in.) and Dan Sullivan (6 ft. 6 in.) leaped to a sweep in that event, the pendulum and the meet swung toward the side of the Crimson...
...sport in some ways looks like a Cinderella industry heading toward midnight. Of the 23 teams in the American Basketball Association and World Hockey Association, only one is in the black. "There's no question about it," says Attorney Bob Woolf, who has negotiated hundreds of contracts, "the pendulum is swinging back. We're in a period of contraction...