Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factional dispute among Southern Presbyterians pointed up a problem that faces every Christian church in the South, now that the Supreme Court's ruling on education has turned the spotlight on segregation in every sphere of life. "The churches . . . are not responsible for the ordering of society through government," said the Christian Century, "but when government makes a move that sustains and supports Christian principle . . . the church will be judged for its support for or opposition to this action." Throughout the South, racial integration was being both supported and opposed by the churches. Items...
Politically, the Socialist Club again took the spotlight when Lawrence B. Cohen, Jr. '32 managed to get himself arrested in the Square for distributing pamphlets which welcomed England's Premier MacDonald. The alert Cambridge police jailed him on Chapter 27 of the General Ordinances, it was learned afterward. Cohen was eventually fined $10, but his literature was restored after pleas that it was not radical but only explanatory...
...liberal, he is also good at conforming to his constituents, many of whom are far from being liberals. For instance, Fulbright knows how to tip his hat to Southern industrialists who capitalize on cheap labor. Last week, Dr. Full was in eclipse and Mr. Bright had the spotlight...
...Indian, and I am inclined only towards India." The best guess was that Nehru was just practicing the Song of India he intends to croon at the mid-April conference of Asian-African leaders at Bandung, Indonesia, where he must share top billing with that old spotlight-stealer, Red China's Chou Enlai. Nehru's ambition is to establish an "area of peace" around the Indian Ocean. Taking Chou En-lai's professions of peace at face value, Jawaharlal Nehru is stuck with the thesis that those old debbil Americans must be causing all the trouble...
...whole globe there can hardly be two more intrinsically negligible pieces of real estate than Quemoy and Matsu, a pair of barren islands off the China coast. Yet history has an old trick of throwing its spotlight on obscure spots and thereby illuminating vast, half-hidden conflicts...