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...This system depends on the world's confidence that the dollar may be exchanged in the United States for a set amount of gold. And, although the Treasury stands ready to exchange one ounce of gold for every 35 dollars, the United States does not have enough gold to redeem every dollar outstanding at this rate...
...chiefly in response to Martin Luther King's call for help. Responding to desperate calls for help would seem to be appropriate clerical behavior. We went as an act of deliberate identification with those in need whose cause is just, to lend encouragement and support, and hopefully to redeem in part our past record of passivity and neutralism. We went as American citizens deploring and protesting Wallace's disfiguration of American democracy. In Montgomery we discovered another reason for being present. Justice Department men encouraged us to join the march on the county courthouse on March...
...Although I am not a Buddhist, I interpreted your article on the subject as an unregenerate evaluation of the antinomies of a great religion. The adroitness of this article does not, in my opinion, redeem it from constituting an affront to the exponents of this faith. Antinomianism is not peculiar to Buddhism, but is rather an inherent pitfall in any religion. The deeper the spiritual insight one attains, the more dramatic the manifestations of this particular pitfall might become...
Before 4,000 spectators, half of them Cubans, Miller declared: "This Administration's* greatest shame is the Bay of Pigs. It backed away from its one opportunity to redeem the freedom of the Cuban people. In doing so, it sacrificed the Monroe Doctrine, which once was the irrevocable guarantee of self-determination for all the peoples of all the Americas...
Unfortunately, before the prospector relates his own near-farcical version of what happened, The Outrage has already set the audience snickering. Even Howe's limpid, meticulous photography cannot redeem the dialogue, which the actors often appear to be addressing to Destiny rather than to one another, perhaps out of kindness. Actress Bloom intones: "He couldn't touch all we've been to each other." Newman's bandit is a growling comic-strip Mexican who leers: "You cooked dee pot of tamales, I juz' took off dee lid." And in the film's bumbling climax...