Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editor of the Selective Service Law Reporter, Judge Harvey's decision extends Clark's opinion "very significantly." Perhaps trying to caution those who may seek reclassification as a result of it, Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey pointedly observed at week's end that "the area of religion is a very complicated...
Died. Thomas Merton, 53, Trappist monk and author eloquently concerned with man's spiritual and secular fulfillment (see RELIGION...
Check), money-grubbing ministers (The Profits of Religion), land exploitation by the California petroleum industry (Oil!), subservience of universities to business (The Goose-Step), cowardly book publishers (Money Writes!), the prosecution of Sacco and Vanzetti (Boston), the baronial life of Henry Ford (The Flivver King), and the ruthlessness of mine owners in the 1913-14 Colorado strike (King Coal). Sinclair also crusaded for birth control and childlabor laws, and helped found the American Civil Liberties Union...
...science that more than redressed any betrayal of freedom of thought that might properly be ascribed to Galileo. But the earth and men's minds have turned again since Galileo's day, and they now question whether science has not led them with the former inexorability of religion toward madness and potential oblivion...
Over the years, Nixon has formed close friendships with two of the nation's best-known preachers: Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale. Nixon occasionally attends Baptist church services with Graham, and one of the President-elect's few public statements on religion was written for Graham's monthly magazine Decision in 1965. "Some of our voices in the pulpit today," Nixon wrote, "speak too much about religion in the abstract, rather than in personal, simple terms. More preaching from the Bible rather than just about the Bible is what America needs." Nixon also described religion...