Word: truest
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...important. Society becomes a mere collection of atomistic units, each an island unto himself. It is regarded as they, not we. It is the individual's lack of identification with society that enables him to excuse his irresponsibility by saying 'Society is responsible.' But society in its truest sense is the embodiment of the common responsibility of its members for themselves and for each other, and it is only in a social context that the individual can be responsible...
Renewal Elite. The truest sign of American Catholic maturity is the development and vociferous presence of something that has been rather grandly called "the renewal elite." It includes bishops, priests, seminarians and sisters, but its driving force is a young, college-trained laity that accepts the church's essential mysteries and matters of faith while questioning the authoritarian way moral theologians reduce these dogmas to terms of practical behavior. As one California Jesuit puts it, "The catechism answers don't satisfy any more -thank...
...Cleveland, Scranton compared Goldwater's conservatism unfavorably to that of Ohio's own late Senator Bob Taft. "Bob Taft was a conservative in the truest sense of the word," Scranton declared. "He sought to conserve all of the human values that have been carried down to us on the long stream of American history. He saw history as the foundation on which a better future might be built-not as a Technicolor fantasy behind which the problems of the present might be concealed. Bob Taft didn't say stop social security-he said extend...
Perhaps the truest measure of the U.S. Peace Corps-of its creed, its ideals, its constructive naivete and its basic worth-was put by a Peace Corpsman who died in the line of duty. Just before he was killed in a plane crash in Colombia while returning to his Peace Corps mission from a short holiday, David Crozier, 23, of West Plains, Mo., wrote to his parents: "Should it come to it, I had rather give my life trying to help someone than to give my life looking down a gun barrel at them...
...killer, as well as a philosopher.... But the thing is simply impossible.... Such different characters may conceivably at the outset of life be alike possible to a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more or less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully, and pick out the one on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereup-on become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failures are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs, carrying shame and gladness with them...