Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made the only sensible, truly Christian statement concerning the Kennedy-Onassis marriage [Nov. 1], should be subjected to hate mail because of his position. Those tradition-bound theologians would do well to restrict the scope of their proclamations and arguments to areas more fitted to their talents than the question of who is, and who is not, a "public sinner." RICHARD C. KEVIN Austin, Texas...
...There is one vital question which I would dearly like to ask Cardinal Gushing. In the unlikely event of a poor widow asking him personally whether she should marry a divorced man, and one of a different church, would he have given the same reply as the one to Jackie Onassis? Would he have announced to the world at large that this poor widow was "free to marry whomsoever she likes" and that talk of her being a sinner was "nonsense"? If he replied no, then he would have been guilty of believing in one law for the rich...
That the old Democratic coalition is broken has become a political cliche. The question for the immediate future is how the party will attempt to construct a new coalition in view of the wholesale defection of the South, the disaffection of many middle-income families, the revolt of many liberals and young voters...
...Nixon and Spiro Agnew. In the last month of the campaign, former Mc-Carthy workers, especially those old enough to recall Humphrey's earlier, fiery days in the Senate, began soliciting support and wearing H.H.H. buttons. They even became intolerant of McCarthyites who refused to join them. Some question remained of how badly Humphrey was hurt by dissident Democrats who stayed away from the polls as a protest. But the nonvote was not the significant factor. If the election did not represent a triumph of the New Politics, it was still the most massive single exercise of participatory democracy...
Every bit as important as the committee's recommendations will be the black students' reactions. And that must be a question mark...