Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ultimate test of their doctrine. I have in mind those gifted but in my view, wrongheaded men who have given a new life to the missionary thrust in American foreign relations--who believe that this nation, in this era, has been granted a threefold endowment of sorts that can transform the world...
...within our social sciences and our development-minded people, in conjunction with tendencies within some of the more enlightened of our miltary people. I think it was this conjunction that gave birth to the concept of counter-insurgency as a constructive, both military and economic action that could help transform revolutionary situations in our direction...
Though the need for action is obvious, Johnson has given no indication that he will support the commission's recommendations with the kind of presidential push needed to transform them into reality. In fact, one White House aide said that Johnson planned no new programs as a result of the report. "We've gone about as far as we could possibly go," he said. "Anything more and we wouldn't have a prayer of getting Congress to enact the surtax." Yet there are times when the President must galvanize a nation's conscience and will...
...bestselling The Secular City, he stressed the need for a relevant Christianity, and for an avant-garde church that would be "a sign of the emergent city of man." Now Cox feels that the churches are beginning to overstress involvement at the expense of inner religious experience. "Once you transform everything into a mission for social action and lose the intrinsic joy of the spirit of worship, you are in danger of losing both," he says. "You don't really worship and you don't really serve...
...five type, but he thinks the adventure is worth it: a community of scholars free to think without the pressures of classes and graduate students and the publish-or-perish syndrome. Much of his administrative work is dull, but Kaysen is willing to endure it for a chance to transform some of his ideas into reality...