Word: schaff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last few weeks continued and even intensified. With no explanation, the government shifted three more key generals to new commands. Also dismissed from their posts were a Catholic Deputy in Parliament who had protested police action during the student riots, the rector of Lodz University, Marxist Philosopher Adam Schaff, three junior ministers, a vice minister and the editor of the Yiddish newspaper Folksstyme. Their firing brought to 36 the number of top officials so far known to have been purged...
...Marxists, plans a fourth next spring. The Vatican's Secretariat for Non-Believers, headed by Vienna's Franziskus Cardinal König, has set up a dozen joint Christian-atheist study groups. On the Marxist side, such leading Red theoreticians as Garaudy and Poland's Adam Schaff have taken part in the Paulus Society seminars. Many European Communist thinkers quote approvingly from the works of French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whose The Phenomenon of Man was recently published in Moscow...
...involved an exotic mixture of personalities. On the dais waiting to deliver their addresses, Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich sat with that outrider of neutralism, Nobel-prize-winning Chemist Linus Pauling. At another panel, Kremlinologist George Kennan, onetime Ambassador to Russia and Yugoslavia, clashed with Dr. Adam Schaff, the leading Marxist theoretician of Poland...
Another barrier to East-West concord is a fundamental philosophical disagreement about the meaning of peaceful coexistence. Poland's Schaff, the most articulate of the five Communists who spoke at the convocation, described the term grandly as a "noble competition for the minds and brains of the people" between rival ideologies. Both Kennan and Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak answered that it is hard for the West to consider the competition "noble" so long as the Reds deny personal liberty and depend on rule by coercion...
Pereira, who has been beaten only once in Ivy competition, could make the semi-finals in the 167 pound class. But, he will still have to face Yale's Dave Schaff, who handed him his lone season defeat, in the finals...