Word: proclaimer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seriously than absolutely necessary. Until after World War II, the European social pattern closely resembled the ancient Chinese formula, according to which a man married at 30 and continued his learning, was first appointed to office at 40, promoted, if successful, at 50, and retired at 70. Disraeli might proclaim that "almost everything that is great has been done by youth." But the vast majority agreed instead with Lord Chesterfield, who remarked, "Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough...
...Poland is 96.5% Catholic, and Cardinal Wyszynski was greeted on his return from Rome by a rapturous crowd of 1,000 at Warsaw's Gdansk Station. Another 10,000 jammed St. John's Cathedral to hear him proclaim: "We served our homeland well in Rome. Anything else you hear you can put down as a fairy tale. Treat it as the leaves dropping from the trees." He was besieged afterwards with bouquets and hymns...
Only God Knows God. While Altizer, Van Buren and Hamilton proclaim the death of God with prophetic force, Syracuse's Associate Professor Gabriel Vahanian, 38, is urbanely content to explain why the funeral is necessary. More conservative than the others, Vahanian is a sociologist of religion and a cultural historian with a primary interest in analyzing man's perception of God. He argues that God, if there is one, is known to man only in terms of man's own culture, and thus is basically an idol: "Theologically speaking, any concept of God can only...
...encounter between primitive Christianity and Greek philosophy, an idol that is no longer relevant to secular culture and has been either neutralized by overexposure or rejected entirely. Thus, he declares, God is dead, and will remain so until the church becomes secular enough in structure and thought to proclaim him anew in ways that will fulfill the cultural needs of the times. Since the spirit of the times is irretrievably secular-with all notions of transcendence and otherworldliness rejected-Vahanian in his current study is working toward a historical explanation of how secularization came about...
...Josef Strauss. Strauss is chief of the 48-man Bavarian branch of the C.D.U., which won a thumping majority of 55% in Bavaria, and he would certainly be entitled to sit in the Cabinet-except for the fact that Mende won't have him. Flying into Bonn to proclaim that he meant "to represent Bavarian interests," Strauss let it be known that his price for sitting out this administration might be Mende's head-and possibly the head of Foreign Minister Gerhard Schr...