Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Challenged in 1948 by Democrat Paul O'Dwyer, the mayor's brother, Javits flooded the district with pamphlets, a comic book that showed him disarming a deranged gunman and saving the neighborhood (pure fantasy), even a brochure in Armenian for the handful of voters who spoke the language. He won by a bare 1,873 votes. It was never quite as harrowing again. In 1950, his margin rose...
...heroes" out of the Hitlers, the Stalins, and even the Joe McCarthys. Adlai Stevenson, who is a hero of the intellectuals, knew the difference. Reaching back to Cicero in comparing himself to Jack Kennedy, he noted ruefully, "When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke'-but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, 'Let us march.' " Heroes may be wrong, but they must be sure...
...almost the same time Galbraith spoke, Walter Lippman '10 was making some of the same points in a speech in California. Modern man, he said, has been emancipated from traditional authority and is now looking for some reservoir of wisdom and truth from which he can draw. Lippman suggested that the universities will ultimately take on this role, even in areas of public policy...
...Threshold Visitations." Billy hopes that this year's rally will be even more successful spiritually than his 1954 Greater London Crusade, when in three months he spoke to 1,339,400 Britons and gained 38,447 decisions for Christ. The 1966 campaign to conquer London for God is the most carefully planned of the evangelist's career. Advance preparation began in earnest 18 months ago, when Graham assistants set up offices overlooking Piccadilly Circus. Billy's organizers sent letters asking for cooperation to every Protestant and Anglican clergyman within 40 miles of London. The Rev. Robert Ferm...
Conservatives immediately raised two objections. Theologically, the creed's attempt to restate traditional doctrine in modern terms appeared to fudge on it: instead of calling the Bible God's infallible word, for example, the Confession spoke of it as "the normative witness" to God's word. There were also objections to the creed's strong emphasis upon the need for the church to serve as God's reconciling agent on such social issues as discrimination and poverty...