Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest issue for the press was posed last week by the Supreme Court's civil rights decisions (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Refueling one of the most perplexing controversies of the decade-individual liberty v. national security-the court's decisions moved the New York Daily News to suggest congressional impeachment of "one or more of the learned justices," prompted a jubilant Page One editorial in the Daily Worker, headed "A Milestone for Democracy," and blew up an eight-column editorial-page headline in the Hearst press: COMMUNISTS SCORE "GREATEST VICTORY...
Modern Hinduism claims to include all other beliefs and practices, from crude animism to the most exalted metaphysical speculation. On this vast spiritual menu the individual Hindu can choose the divine nourishment he likes best, and it is all equally nutritious-provided that he swallows it seriously enough. And, suggest the Hindus, since Christian practice (if not Christian theology) is on the Hindu bill of fare, it is wrong for Western evangelists to urge converts to leave Hinduism in order to become Christians...
...decision to which all this eventually leads is resented as essentially irreligious." Indian Scholar P. J. Mehta speaks for most Hindu religious leaders when he says: "By all means discuss your faith with us, share your views and your experience with us, but India would like to suggest that the true missionary is one who, by both example and precept, helps the other to live his own faith more perfectly, and not to forsake to the missionary's faith...
...their titles suggest, the novels are a queer quartet: The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931), Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), A Cool Million (1934), and The Day of the Locust (1939). During his lifetime...
PARIS IN THE PAST, by Pierre Courthion, translated by James Emmons (149 pp.; Skira; $6.50), and PARIS IN OUR TIME, by Pierre Courthion, translated by Stuart Gilbert (142 pp.; Skira; $6.50), suggest that, if poets make the best historians, then perhaps a city's best tourist guides are her painters. The mind's eye of genius is bound to catch some ineffable quality that the traveler, with or without camera, is bound to miss. That is the premise of these two books, with their 144 handsome color reproductions of Paris from the 14th to the 20th centuries, around...