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...losses in Viet Nam, Kennedy would outflank him on the right, arguing that Johnson had abandoned President Kennedy's commitment to South Viet Nam. Kearns suggests that Johnson may have had a special horror of Bobby as a man who met the same conflicting parental demands (be a thinker, be a doer) in a way he never could...
Five of the eleven are Roman Catholics. Among them are Dom Helder Comoro of Brazil (TIME, June 24), the activist, junta-baiting archbishop whose "cry is justice"; Jesuit Philosopher Bernard Lonergan of Canada, a "notoriously difficult thinker" whose work seeks to join theology and the social sciences; and Father Andrew Greeley, a Chicago sociologist whose insights have provided "a better understanding of today's religious crisis." Swiss-born Theologian Hans Küng of West Germany's Tübingen University was described as "devotedly Roman Catholic" although he has a deserved reputation as a radical...
...Bishop Abel Muzorewa, a steady voice for racial equality "whom Rhodesia's black people have learned to trust"; and David Du Plessis, globetrotting apostle of the fast-spreading, transdenominational Pentecostal movement. The editors reserved some of their highest praise for German Theologian Jürgen Moltmann, a Reformed thinker whom they call "the most dominant theological presence of our time." They find that Moltmann's rigorous but essentially optimistic thought (The Theology of Hope; Religion, Revolution and the Future) offers "a hope for the present and future life to victims of today's chaotic world, instead...
...Just remember," Nixon says, "all-the trouble we're taking, we'll have a chance to get back one day." For this cool-headed thinker remembers other outcries over greater matters. "We heard that at the time, you know," the transcribers say he said on April 14, "when we did Cambodia. They said, you remember [unintelligible...
...occasional fluttering gesture, an odd grimace or two remind us, as well, of the great Tramp that was. Unfortunately, the spirit of that immortal, an archical figure does not even struggle to emerge from the portly, white-haired world figure and self-appointed deep-dish thinker who disports so uncomfortably before audiences with which he could not help knowing he had lost all connection...