Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passing fad," he says. "Students for generations to come will be talking about it. If any white theologian wants to talk to us, it's on black-theology terms." He contends that black theology should be a theology of revolution "whose sole purpose is to apply the freeing power of the Gospel to black people under white oppression...
...worker who has seen his weekly purchasing power decline in the past year from $78.47 to $78.23 in May, the best news is the prospect of increasingly stable prices. Government economists figure that the rate of rise in living costs may go up in the next few months because of seasonal factors, but that the index will be advancing at a fairly steady 4% annual rate at year's end. They expect the Government's anti-inflationary moves to have worked their restraints on prices by then, if not earlier...
...Minister Sato is expected to tell Nixon in Washington that the Japanese auto industry will be opened to outsiders by the autumn of 1971. Sato has urged Japanese business chiefs to make their economy freer for foreign competition, and more and more Japanese leaders realize that a first-class power must do just that...
...Spender sees it, an ideal student-rebel's contribution should be both non-mystical and nonpolitical: he should operate as a troubler of conscience and imagination. Today's rebels, who vacillate between instant saintliness and instant power, Spender-like most other observers-finds dangerously ill-informed. He is inclined to agree with Raymond Aron's judgment: "More sympathetic than the Communists, they are their intellectual inferiors." In matters of hunger, illiteracy and overpopulation, "they seem to take very little interest." "Students who attempt to revolutionise society by first destroying the university," Spender adds in a warning...
Though he tends to treat his leading characters as if they were dukes and dauphins of some royal court, dwelling upon their power drives at the expense of their unquestioned professional skill, he is at pains not to take explicit sides. Clearly Talese does not care for Daniel. Yet the book's main characters, Reston and Daniel, are not hero and villain but nearly equal protagonists. Daniel is shown as a careerist who cultivates worldly graces and helpful grandees. Against that, the reader can balance Reston's less blatant but equally tenacious ambition, and his curious notion that...