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...what is so wrong with majority rule? For heaven's sake, I refer you to the ancient Greeks, who invented democracy and other high principles 2,500 years...
Harlem is where Negroes refer to one another as "nigger" and "brother," "spook" and "hardhead," but woe to the white man who uses the same expression. It is where the white man is no longer the "ofay" (pig Latin for foe), but "Mr. Charlie" or "the man," and mostly "whitey," derived from the Black Nationalist talk of "the blue-eyed white devil." It is where a common laborer mutters to himself at a corner bar: "You don't come up to Harlem and whip my head, white man. You can whip me somewhere else. But not here, white...
...Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson scorned the suggestion that he might accept the Democratic vice-presidential nomination, saying it would be "trading a vote for a gavel." Before the reconciliation, he liked to refer to Kennedy as "young Jack," said Kennedy had rolled up primary victories because "Jack was out kissing babies while I was passing bills." In the heat of battle, Johnson wasn't above rattling the long-closeted skeleton of Old Joe Kennedy's days as U.S. Ambassador to England: "I wasn't any Chamberlain umbrella policy man. I never thought Hitler was right...
...increasingly found linguistic analysis to be a helpful tool in interpreting the religion "games." It has dissolved some of the old conflicts between science and theology, by making it clear, for example, that pastors speaking of God the Creator and cosmologists talking of the "continuous creation" of the universe refer to different and nonparallel propositions. It has made analytically minded theologians suspicious of the cloudy speculation that sometimes wafts out of German seminaries. More important, analysis has provided the theologians with a method of thinking that will help them make a fresh approach to such vital religious terms as soul...
...offshoot of the fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren, the Exclusives have traditionally been a clannish sort, clustering in self-imposed ghettos in small English towns and Scottish fishing villages. They seldom marry outside the sect, and refer to each other as "saints"-the only true disciples of Christ. The Brethren do not smoke, dance, watch TV or wear makeup, but official doctrine says that "strong drink is to be regarded as a creation of God and saints should freely drink...