Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dorothy Day, editor of the Catholic Worker, will not appear at the Winthrop House Forum tonight. Thomas Cornell, of the Worker staff, will speak instead on the scheduled topic, "peace and Poverty in the Church," at 8 p.m. in the Dining Hall...
...means has all the comment been favorable. It could not have been, given a topic which is sacred to many, embarrassing to some, and intensely personal to everyone. But we are heartened by the objections almost as much as by the praise, for it is indifference that hurts most in morals as much as in journalism. One reason why TIME undertook this story was precisely because so many Americans in recent times have seemed morally indifferent and unshockable; to judge from the response, there are still a great many who are neither...
...expanding drugs turned out to be a veritable gold mine, as the Review spread as far as the opium dens of Hong Kong. Anything following was bound to be something of an anti-climax, although the editors tried to soften the anticipated thud by focusing on Communist China, a topic fascinating in its own right. Yet the fall-winter edition of the Review is disappointing even by pre-drug issue standards...
...Public Health Service's latest word on cigarette smoking was unquestionably the big conversational topic of the week. Banner headlines reflected the gravity of the conclusions: SMOKING CALLED GRAVE HAZARD (Fort Lauderdale News), CIGARETTES CAUSE CANCER (Chicago's American), IT'S OFFICIAL CIGARETTE SMOKING CAN KILL YOU (New York Herald Tribune). News stories spelled out every detail, and the editorial cartoonists were both anxious and melodramatic (see cuts). But in some of the collateral stories spawned by the report, the papers seemed as willing as the U.S. smokers to face up to the new dangers with...
...note said nothing at all about Russia's most important squabble-the one with Communist China. But this was surely a topic of conversation when Khrushchev, bundled up in a fur hat and fur-trimmed coat, suddenly arrived for a visit with Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka in a lavish hunting lodge 125 miles north of Warsaw-the same frigid site where Nikita met Gomulka a year ago for discussion of Communist problems and some hunting in the nearby woods...