Word: proclaimer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world unused to organized religion. A memorandum prepared by General Secretary Visser 't Hooft and Bishop Lesslie Newbigin of the Church of South India reminded them that the mysterious East was accustomed to a different brand of holy man. "To go to the capital city of India and proclaim that Jesus Christ is the light of the world is a daring action," the memo noted. "It is difficult for most people in India to take seriously a claim to religious insight which is not accompanied by an element of austerity in regard to such matters as food and living...
...young intellectuals, students and professionals," the editors proclaim, "founded New University Thought because we were dissatisfied with what we saw. The gigantic resources of the academic world seemed to be focused on everything but the most crucial questions in our society. How rare it was when leafing through the professional journals, that we saw discussed the problems of physical and mental survival in our age." If NUT can continue discussing them intelligently and openly, it will help transform the students into a loosely defined interest grouping, capable of direct influence on the social, political and intellectual structure of this country...
...Baltimore is a gaudy neon wilderness of eateries, sleeperies, roadside marts and drive-ins. An average 87,500 motorists travel that 48-mile stretch daily and, inevitably, many of them are riffraff of a sort no innkeeper would welcome. But in fact, the restaurant and motel signs that proclaim "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" are addressed exclusively to Negroes -and time and again Route 40, by turning away African diplomats, has earned ill will...
...world's underdeveloped nations ("No backward country is fully independent"); he showed proper concern about Castro's Cuba by calling for "representative democracy in the entire American continent," then softened the sting by again insisting on absolute nonintervention.* As for the cold war, said Frondizi, "when we proclaim the fact that we are members of the Western and Christian world, we are not doing so in order to create antagonistic blocs or pit one group of nations against another...
...Happy Days, Winnie scrutinizes the handle of her toothbrush and reads the words "fully guaranteed . . . genuine pure." She and the New Exquisites are bitter because life is not fully guaranteed and genuinely pure. Their plaint is that life is fraudulent, corrupt, conformist, lonely, sad and beastly. The Old Exquisites proclaimed art for art's sake. By finding life devoid of ends and meanings, the New Exquisites proclaim art for the artist's sake as the only alternative and the only affirmation...