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-SCHOOL PRAYERS. Laird reports that he has had more requests to be heard by witnesses who want to condemn the 1963 Supreme Court decision banning a state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools than on any other issue in contention. He considers the issue a real "sleeper." Conservatives may...
Like many of us who have grown up Catholics, he finds Latin Scholasticism--the endless manipulation of dogma, the recitation of catechism--empty and banal. And yet he sees no comfort in what he calls the "moral relativism" that so dominates the social sciences and is embodied in the humanities...
Much of the cry to "Get God Back in the Schools" reflects deep misunderstanding of what the court actually said. In Engel v. Vitale (1962), it overruled the required daily recitation of a nondenominational prayer composed by a governmental body, the New York State Board of Regents. In 1963'...
What I said was that the decisions in the prayer and Bible-reading cases would hopefully force us to deal more vigorously with the problem of moral education in the schools; and that there were ways of doing this (through social studies, the sense of spiritual adventure is learning, and...
One Drink, No More. Eisenhower springs one of the book's few surprises in reporting his first reactions to the news that the U.S. intended to drop the atom bomb on Japan. He thought it was a mistake on the ground that Japan was already defeated and "that our...