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...Racial guilt phobia is the silliest concept since original sin. Southerners abuse Negroes because we all have to have someone to look down on, and for a redneck with no hound-dog, that ain't easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 31, 1964 | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

Moreover, even in the South Humphrey, although hardly popular would be less of a liability than Bobby Kennedy whose name has become an oath. (It's not passing the law but enforcing it that is the sin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Johnson's Running Mate | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...context that Goldwater used them, they were questionable. They drew tumultuous cheers from the delegates; they also got Barry embroiled in a thunderous dispute. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller blasted Barry's remarks as "dangerous, irresponsible and frightening." Barry shot back: "Extremism is no sin if you are engaged in the defense of freedom." California's Democratic Governor Pat Brown said the remarks had "the stench of Fascism." Retorted Barry: "It's the stench of Brown-it's ignorance." Dwight Eisenhower too was disturbed, declared that the remarks "would seem to say that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The New Thrust, Barry Goldwater | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

From the first, Zwingli found celibacy difficult. In 1515, nine years after his ordination, he took a private vow of chastity-which he kept for only a year and a day. But in the casual atmosphere of the Swiss Church, Zwingli's sin was no bar to advancement, and in 1519 the canons of Zurich Minster appointed him preacher of the cathedral; his chief rival for the post was a German priest who admitted to fathering six children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: The Third Man | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...standards. But it is an un-American course. There are stone walls to play over, tiered greens the size of polo fields, and acre upon acre of prickly gorse, heather and sad. Nicknames are enough for the hazard: "The Twin Fangs of the Lady of Fife," "The Valley of Sin," "Hell Bunker." For a topper, there is the weather. The word "links," after all, originated in Scotland. It means "golf course by th sea," and in the case of St. Andrew; that means the North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: A Humbling Game | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

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