Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some thinkers to wonder whether the church is not ripe for the convening of Vatican III. "So much has happened that the fathers of Vatican II could not have anticipated," says Publisher Dan Herr of Chicago's bimonthly Critic, "that another council cannot be delayed." One obvious topic for the agenda would be a new ruling on contraception to reflect the consensus of the faithful. Another, suggests Theologian Gregory Baum of Toronto, would be a definition "of the limits of papal authority and the freedom to be given local churches." It is taken for granted by those who dream...
...involvement in education are profound issues. We must listen to students and not again make the unforgiveable mistake of the late 1950's when some scholars, well worth their salt, watched from a safe distance the changing world of the South and chose to focus on the least significant topic of the time, the psychodynamics of courageous civil rights workers. Thomas J. Cottle Assistant Professor of Social Relations
...plight of the Biafran people is a topic on which McGuire spends relatively little time, because he feels the subject has been adequately covered by American reporters, and also because the airlift crews seldom stay in Biafra longer than four hours -- the time it takes to unload 30 tons of baby food, or Mausers, or whatever from the Constellations. He does, however, venture to add a few vignettes to the picture of the people. Pilots on flights into Biafra carry canned hams and salt to give to the unloaders as an incentive for faster work. On one of his flight...
Advertised as the showdown on the ROTC issue, the HUC meeting drew more than fifty people to discuss the topic, including Archie C. Epps, assistant to the Dean of the College, who appeared as an HUC witness to discuss faculty inquiry into the ROTC courses...
THROUGHOUT U.S. history, the national economy has been the permanent political issue. This year, partly because Americans feel relatively prosperous and partly because they are preoccupied by concern for law and order and the Viet Nam war, the economy has not become a major topic of campaign contention. Yet many-some would say most-of the problems that the new President will face are deeply entwined with economics. Without making big headlines, both Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey have placed themselves on record in considerable detail about the direction of the economy. Though both men are moderates in their attitudes...