Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked his followers to suggest goals for the council, and ideas have flowed in. As collected in a new paperback, Dare to Live: The Taizé Youth Experience (Seabury; $2.95), the ideas are eclectic and ambitious. Often they reflect local versions of radical Christianity. A Latin American, for instance, looks forward to a somewhat Utopian kind of social, economic and political liberation-a Christian "revolution" that will set the world aright. Others view Christian life as a "sign of contradiction" in a pagan civilization-to see their role as an example of selfless living in a selfish world. "The council...
...gamble. Failures that lesser writers could get away with leave gaping holes in Hawkes's work. Allert's wife, Ursula, for example, never quite achieves mythic stature and threatens to remain little more than a parody, lounging about in a state of perpetual langour that is supposed to suggest sensuality. Hawkes only makes things worse with his clumsy explanation...
Maybe no one understands it. But a large part of the problem is a compound of U.S. intervention and U.S. disinterest--intervention by the government and disinterest on the part of the foreign policy public. While it would be naive to suggest that public indignation could quickly change the direction of U.S. policy, the same efforts towards educating and interesting and shaming the public that were eventually influential in Vietnam are needed in regard to Latin America...
...neither paranoid nor shrill, nor even defensive, to suggest that this proposed legislation is inconsistent with "great exercise of freedom of the press...
...Republican candidate, a former assistant to Congressman James Harvey, who has vacated the post to become a federal judge, said that he initially wanted Nixon to appear in the district to talk to voters about Watergate and the nation's inflation and unemployment problems. But Sparling seemed to suggest a change of mind about the invitation, as his standing in polls improved, when he declared: "I cannot and will not defend the actions of the President. If I am elected to the Congress, any proof of wrongdoing on his behalf will draw my vote for impeachment-zap." The invitation...