Word: responded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle-class hypocrisy about violence. "Good" people utterly delegate society's dirty work to overworked white cops, few of whom are inclined to be Boy Scouts. The middle class denounces violence but wants the police to use it, and is then shocked when hordes of young hooligans respond in kind-vividly teaching irresponsible elders (most sharply disapprove) that looting is a handy way to grab the possessions they lack...
This sense of mission had its motivation in a study made by two of their professors, a study remarkable for its statistical manipulations and its quickly reached conclusions. As to the first, we respond with the words of Kram Naiwt: "There are three kinds of lies: white lies, plain lies, and statistics." As to the second, we class the two professors with those "experts" who write books on foreign countries after a two-weeks visit...
...which has traditionally upheld the immutability of dogma, there is widespread recognition by theologians that all formulas of faith are man's frail and imperfect vessels for carrying God's truth, and are forever in need of reformulation. In the light of Christianity's need to respond to the human needs of the earth, many of these ancient formulas hardly seem worth rethinking. "The central axis of religious concern," notes Langdon Gilkey of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "has shifted from matters of ultimate 'salvation,' and of heaven or hell, to questions...
...From Cleveland, CBS carried a film of tear-streaked Mayor Carl Stokes Negro as his constituents sang America. No less eloquent was an interview with Ben Branch, a King aide who had been with him at the time of the assassination and who was still too be numbed to respond...
...ended the Indochina war, to do all within their power to move Hanoi toward talks. He announced that Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman and Llewellyn Thompson, Ambassador to Moscow, would be available to go to Geneva or any other suitable locale to talk peace. He urged Ho Chi Minh to respond positively...