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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elation. Had he any second thoughts about the wisdom of the attitude he had adopted toward the Chinese Communists and the policies he had recommended? "No one is immune from making mistakes," he said, and added that history might yet show that the U.S. ought to have organized some sort of coalition between its allies, the Nationalists, and its enemies, the Communists, so as to avert fighting "which the Communists, being tightly organized, were sure to win." Ahead of Old China Hand Service looms an eighth loyalty check-this one under the somewhat stricter rules of the Eisenhower Administration. When...
...public indecency belongs to the realm of private conduct, not of criminal law." Said the Spectator: "The present law on this point is utterly irrational and illogical." The London Economist thought that "private homosexual behavior between adults does no medical harm to themselves and no harm of any sort to others." Also in support of changing the law were the Church of England, which found the report "thorough, courageous and liberal," and a Roman Catholic spokesman who said that the Wolfenden committee's recommendations were "only acceptance of the fact that the community should not, in general, pry into...
...divinity of Christ' [but on] the humanity of Christ. Christ became man and died for all men. We know that this is so, but our theologies and our church structures make it appear that he died for only some men or for a curiously fragmented sort of man . . . We are able to say no more than that God became man under certain special conditions-Presbyterian or Anglican or Methodist or Lutheran conditions . . . This comes to saying that ... the human race is one-but not really...
Jesuits are prominent in seismology and geophysics, e.g., Father J. Joseph Lynch, director of Fordham's geophysical observatory. In Rome, Father Roberto Busa is picking the electrical brains of a battery of IBM machines to sort out the different shades of meaning that St. Thomas Aquinas intended for his 13 million written words. Some 800 Jesuits are deep in theology; about 80 are electricity and physics experts; more than 900 are physicians or have some medical training...
...Gogol published the first part of his greatest work. Dead Souls, a novel that brilliantly exposed a brutal anachronism of Russian life: serfdom. Serfs, like any other property, could be mortgaged. Gogol introduced a sort of Russian spiv who speculated in "dead souls,'' i.e., defunct but still financially negotiable persons...