Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Jan. 28 issue, I read of the alarming plight of the not-so-great state of North Dakota and the possibility of a new name for it. I proffer as a solution: a merger of North and South Dakota, neither of which is overly productive, thereby leaving a vacancy in our Union to be filled by the productive, ever-growing territory of Alaska. JOHN J. JAVORONOK Gladwyne...
...might fail to meet white standards, King worked ceaselessly. Aside from his general theological studies, he pored over the words and works of the great social philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Locke, Hegel (whose progress-through-pain theories are still prominent in King's thinking). Above all, he read and reread everything he could find about India's Gandhi. "Even now," says King, "in reading Gandhi's words again, I am given inspiration. The spirit of passive resistance came to me from the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. The techniques of execution came from Gandhi...
...Hungarian government. Operating with enormous zeal and energy, he persuaded Hungarian officials that if a Jew claimed neutral citizenship he should not be deported until the truth of his claim had been established. This done, he promptly affixed to the homes of some 20,000 such Jews signs that read: "Under the Protection of the Swedish Legation." He rented 32 houses in Budapest in the name of the Swedish legation, packed them with other Jews; he issued thousands of "protective passports" to still others, finally became so bold that on several occasions he bluffed Gestapo or SS guards into releasing...
...preaching is on a deeper and more dogmatic level than here, but the churches are empty all too often. Here the preaching is close to the people, the churches are full, but the problem is whether the congregation hears anything in the sermon which its members have not already read in their morning newspapers and have already told themselves...
Switch to Diapers? With President George Romney felled by appendicitis, Director Richard E. Cross read a report from Romney, and deployed a management team to parry some pointed criticism. It came from Stockholder Sol A. Dann, a pixyish Detroit attorney who makes management-baiting a hobby, represents only a small number of American's 48,500 shareholders. Dann demanded that American merge with some profit-making company, or liquidate and pay off stockholders. But either choice would mean even bigger losses, said management. The book value of the company would be far less if it were not a going...