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...political talk last week centered on surprising new appraisals of Goldwater's chances for victory in November. Taking the current political temperature on a selective basis, reporters found much evidence pointing to pockets of strength for Barry, so much so that even hitherto cocky Democrats began to rethink the unthinkable question, "Could he win?"-and the answer came up, "By gosh-he could...
Reluctant Rethink. Publication of the petition brought angry cries from Stockholm's "cultural radicals"-the powerful Establishment of secular-minded writers, editors and pedagogues who have been instrumental in, making Sweden a sociological laboratory. "The letter wants to introduce blind authoritarianism!" roared one newspaper, Dagens Nyheter. Authoress Kristina Ahlmark Michanek, 25, a free-love advocate whose latest tome, For Friendship's Sake, is a Swedish bestseller, declared indignantly: "It is a human right to go to bed with someone you like without being insulted by society." After all, she and others pointed out, prostitution is fast dying...
...nine minutes, to some topics to bear in mind: the provincialism and brief history of our present customs; the organic nature of pleasure and its value as one criterion of vitality; the Thomist concept of sexual contact as a means of knowng another person; and the need to rethink the traditional family pattern in modern economic and urban conditions. I had prepared my notes carefully; I spoke my propositions tersely and, I felt, pretty well...
...last week, six major faculty groups had backed resolutions calling on the C.U. administration to rethink its notions of academic freedom. "Now all this is out in the open." says one faculty man. "The trustees cannot bypass the situation as it exists." Rector McDonald himself i gave a sign that all the protest was having j a telling effect. He announced the appearance at Catholic University next month of a timely guest speaker: Augustin Cardinal Bea, a towering liberal at the Vatican Council. Bea's topic: ''Academic Research and Ecumenicism...
Much of the conservative suspicion of Rahner stems from his Socratic approach -he keeps relentlessly asking questions, dangerous, thought-prodding questions. Rahner believes that each generation must rethink the problems of theology for itself. He never rejects outright the dogmatic definitions of past councils or Popes, but he is constantly asking what the words of those definitions really mean. "The theologian of today," he says, "must be in search of a new language. We've got a lot of things to rethink. A holy boldness is needed...