Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...communists, at once dogmatic and anti-humanistic. In her greatest moment, Mother Joan screams at the priest that she likes her demons; that she will not be made just like thousands of others, who pray to gods all together, who eat their beans every day. This is precisely the plea of Poland, afraid that it is being engulfed by the faceless hordes of the East. Poles frequently identify the mass nature of the Russian Orthodox Church with the mass nature of Soviet communism...
...average Western man uses only 2% to 5% of his mental capacity. Gallup argues that exercising the intellect with weighty issues will toughen flabby thinking, nourish creativity, enlarge perception. Yet Gallup's own thinking is so vague, his theories so contradictory, that the result is simply a plea for mental uplift with very little to support...
Much of Arevalo's analysis could have been performed by any Latin politician, if less forcefully. His great contribution in Anti-Kommunism in Latin America is his unique discussion of the Catholic Church and its role. He makes an impassioned plea for liberal thought by the Church, and systematically tears down the conservative positions that have long been advanced on the part of Catholicism. One feels his deep sense of tragedy when he concludes his discussion of the Church: "Respectable public: the comedy is over. Too bad that we have ended up in Hell...
...biggest unknown in today's contest is the number of voters who will write in Lodge's name on the ballot. If the number is large, the division of moderate voters may pull Rockefeller's total below Goldwater's. But if citizens heed Rockefeller's plea to "vote for one of the candidates who has openly declared himself a candidate, and who has traveled in the state to discuss the issues with you," then the united moderates may overwhelm the Goldwater backers...
Sweden, which generally plays it lightly, last week was in an uproar about sex. The cause was a petition of protest to King Gustav VI Adolf signed by 140 eminent Swedish physicians, including the King's own doctor. Their plea to the monarch and to the government: take swift steps to stop sexual laxity, which "is a menace to the vitality and health of the nation...