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In politics, anger is too easily confused with moral indignation. But moral indignation purges itself through action, while anger tends to purge itself through rhetoric. As Organizer Saul Alinsky suggests, anger in politics substitutes for all other games the game of "Kill the umpire!" Far right and far left, the...
Passionate Scholarship. Though spread around the country, the China scholars get together frequently at formal meetings like a session on Chinese ideology and politics that is taking place this week in Santa Fe. They share the special excitement of working on an intellectual frontier where even undergraduate research projects can...
The fight is an old one in American Protestantism, but it has grown up anew in the Missouri Synod with Concordia's efforts to build a topflight Scripture faculty. When Preus' investigation team arrived on the Concordia campus, it was stacked with fundamentalists who see the more liberal...
Lingering Bigotry. As it turned out, the conservative drive was stopped by a narrow margin. Moderates retained control of Concordia's board, which should avoid any threat of purge in the seminary for at least two years. As for the resolution on doctrinal formulations, the delegates voted 485-425...
No Saints. Seeking to clean up the party's image, Gierek in recent weeks has carried out a purge of security agencies. Some 40 officials, several of them allies of Moczar, have been either sacked or arrested on corruption charges. Said Radio Warsaw: "We have exploded another myth-that...