Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Niebuhr's chief contribution to U.S. liberal thinking, his friends say, is keeping his fellow liberals on the path of the pos sible. "You don't get world government," he once said, "by drawing up a fine constitution. You get it through the process of history. You grow into it." The feelings of his fellow theologians are more mixed. Some criticize his failure to think and act in terms of the church or to generate ideas that would help to counteract modern irreligion and immorality. Others find his ideas of sin too grandiose, too remote from the common...
...doctrine that God is the sole cause of the world process, the world and man having no independent reality...
...Secret Process. Dave Bazelon held some strong notions about how to run the companies. He thought the two rayon firms were making too much money (last year they had netted $5,700,000 on $37 million in sales). He also suspected that some of their customers were reselling their rayon in the grey market...
Bazelon got the FBI to investigate. Its agents marked outgoing rayon by a secret process, and traced it through the grey market. The FBI estimated that 10-15% of North American and Bemberg's output was being resold at prices up to $4 a pound, four times the factory price...
Unitary Thought. The development that Author Whyte now foresees is that which he calls unitary man. Marx saw man as part of an economic process; Freud saw man as the creature of his sexual drives. The whole man, the complete man, living in harmony with nature, of which he recognizes himself to be a conscious part, freed of the sense of guilt which comes from the lack of balance between Christian idealism and the chaotic contemporary world, equally free of the sadistic drives of the fascist, consciously making himself a part of the life of his community, and visualizing himself...