Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onetime druggist's prescription for his troubled party and nation is conciliation and unity. "We seek an America of one spirit," Humphrey said. "The time has come to express a new American patriotism." Out in the open, running for himself again, he radiated all the old Humphrey solar energy. He will need...
Fairer critics concede that Humphrey's position on Viet Nam is consistent with the Vice President's longstanding views on Communism and international security. Many liberals remain good friends. Former Senator Paul Douglas insists that Humphrey has suffered "no corruption of his spirit. He is still the essentially progressive nontotalitarian liberal." Douglas also argues that Humphrey has been instrumental in liberalizing Lyndon. "It has not been a one-sided affair," he says. Even Dr. Benjamin Spock, a leading antiwar activist, pronounces Humphrey the best of the three candidates, except on Viet Nam, and says that he mistrusts Kennedy's "ambition...
...these days-national unity. "However strong, however prosperous, however just its purposes or noble its cause," he told a dinner of Cook County Democrats, "no nation can long endure when citizen is turned against citizen, cause against cause, section against section, generation against generation by the mean and selfish spirit of partisanship...
...argumments for "conservatism" vis a vis family planning in Cambridge are not substantive. Having Catholics on the Board of Trustees (three out of five) should not retard progress if the example of Cardinal Cushing on the Board of the Boston City Hospital is followed. Cardinal Cushing preached ecumenicism of spirit and "private conscience" in approving the Boston City Hospital's liberal policy. Some, peripheral in power but not in the power of suggestion, attempted to make the hospital a tool of planned parenthood associaties. It is difficult to get a representative or quotable statement of the attitudes of the doctors...
...have favored separate policies for married and unmarried. The (3 to 1) results are highly encouraging and belie the myth of opposition among laymen to a liberal and forthright approach to birth control. In fact it seems that the professional policy-making middle class is acting neither in the spirit of the church as personified by Cardinal Cushing's ecumenicism, nor in accord with public opinon; rather it is upholding in the name of "prevailing sentiment" mythical standards that are dear to itself only and few others...