Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simple Uncle Sap-ism? No; other new attitudes, drawn from two decades of experience, have clarified the giver-getter relationship. Only the naive among the givers expect lavish thanks; only the naive among the getters darkly suspect concealed U.S. motives. The U.S. now knows that arm twisting by withdrawing aid rarely works-and it usually knows better than to let foreign governments attempt aid-or-else blackmail. Moreover, the U.S. has backed away from any grandiose dreams of remaking the world; receiving nations nonetheless candidly want a large helping of U.S. machines, techniques and comforts...
...Government subsidy of religion, since "the church is not receiving the benefit of the money but offering itself as a channel. The church, as a church, is not receiving the money." The president of the Lutheran Church in America, Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, agrees. "We believe that the proper relationship is one of functional interaction," he says. "As we see it, the divinely instituted missions of the church and state are converging in important areas of their activities...
...Memphis lawyer, puffed on his cigar and pin pointed the urgent issue facing him as new president of the A.B.A. The bar, said Kuhn, is just waking up to the fact that millions of Americans yearn for group practice; events are outpacing the lawyer's one-to-one relationship with clients. Warned Kuhn: "We've got to make up our minds as to whether we're going to face the facts of life or stick our heads in the damned sand." Apart from caution or complacency, the chief pressure against change comes from the A.B.A...
...Eliot have struggled with the problem of Becket. In Murder in the Cathedral, Eliot maintained that "Christian martyrdom is no accident" but an act prearranged either by God or the doomed man. France's Jean Anouilh built his play Becket more on the love-hate relationship of the king and archbishop, but also claimed that Becket was a Saxon rebel against England's Norman overlords. To Poet Christopher Fry, in Curtmantle, King Henry was the tragic hero and focus of the play; Becket vanishes from sight after his murder in the second...
...realm of taste and judgment than national security, in an area, that is, whose limits are not easy to define. Where, for example, is the historian to draw the line in his use of informal remarks made to him by high officials on the basis of a personal relationship? How can he separate his own perspective and values from those of the man for whom he has worked? I suggest that while there is no easy solution to these problems, Mr. Schlesinger has egregiously overstepped the bounds of good judgment and common decency in his handling of them...