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Above all, it is his version of existentialism, a philosophical air-raid shelter that he erected for Europe's disillusioned intellectuals after World War II, that seems rather outdated today. It is essentially a conjuring trick-a preachment of faith without belief, of free will to no purpose. "Atheism is a cruel and long-range affair," Sartre has said. Always faithful in this affair, never publicly flirting with hope or grace (as did his fellow existentialist and fellow Nobel winner Albert Camus), Sartre takes atheism to its grim limits. Man as he sees him is alone in an absurd...
...explain the extraordinary King mystique. Yet he has an indescribable capacity for empathy that is the touchstone of leadership. By deed and by preachment, he has stirred in his people a Christian forbearance that nourishes hope and smothers injustice. Says Atlanta's Negro Minister Ralph D. Abernathy, whom King calls "my dearest friend and cellmate": "The people make Dr. King great. He articulates the longings, the hopes, the aspirations of his people in a most earnest and profound manner. He is a humble man, down to earth, honest. He has proved his commitment to Judaeo-Christian ideals. He seeks...
...Britain, nearly 90% of mental patients are in unlocked hospitals; in the U.S.. less than 50%. Britain has 70 day hospitals; the U.S. only 25. The usual reaction of North American psychiatrists to the bearded Bierer's preachment is that U.S. legal and public opinion is not yet ready for a drastic change. The same arguments were advanced when a few progressive U.S. hospitals began to unlock their doors (TIME. Nov. 16, 1959). Yet patients free to come and go have committed no more crimes, caused no more trouble than the general population. The more freedom they have...
...National Council's fifth triennial general assembly. He had been invited by California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike to be guest preacher at the pulpit of Grace Cathedral. When he sat down to think out his sermon about six weeks ago, it turned into a preachment that may well be a landmark in Protestant history...
...Time and again we hear spurious assertions that America's defenses are weak, that her economic expansive force can be sustained only by federal spending, that her educational and health efforts are deficient. In this kind of preachment political morticians are exhibiting a breast-beating pessimism in the American system...