Word: tokening
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...current word, I suppose) bias of thinkers like Gordon and Buber clearly do clash with law-centered traditional Judaism. But the absence of an absolute ground for morality in these two writers is not, as Leifer says, evidence that Judaism today lacks vigor. Rather, it is a token that Gordon and Buber are groping for a truer, more relativistic truth than traditional Judaism ever admitted...
...affidavit represents a shabby attempt on the part of the government to purchase loyalty. The truly loyal will be repelled and alienated by this token of their government's suspicion, while the disloyal will not balk at signing a scrap of paper...
...same time, argued more than 30 of them before the Supreme Court. The high point of his career: his successful Supreme Court arguments that led to the historic 1954 school desegregation decision. Southern Senators, who disagree with Marshall but respect his abilities, are expected to make only a token fight against his confirmation...
...clearly, the following fact. A gangster (the Soviet Union) does not cease his bloody activities because society frowns upon his activities - the extension and preservation of Communism through deceit, treachery, and barbarity when necessary. Since society employs armed policemen to protect itself from gangsters, by the same token a nation should use minimal adequate force to protect itself from international gangsters...
Last week the moral siege of Atlanta (pop. 487,455) ended in spectacular fashion with the smoothest token school integration ever seen in the Deep South. Into four high schools marched nine Negro students without so much as a white catcall. Teachers were soon reporting "no hostility, no demonstrations, the most normal day we've ever had." In the lunchrooms, white children began introducing themselves to Negro children. At Northside High, a biology class was duly impressed when Donita Gaines, a Negro, was the only student able to define the difference between anatomy and physiology. Said she crisply: "Physiology...