Word: tumults
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...seen anything like it in years. Instead of applause for Richard Wagner's music, there were hisses and catcalls -led off by an ear-shattering "No!" from the box of Dr. Alfons Goppel, Bavarian minister-president (equivalent of a U.S. Governor). Women lost their jewelry in the tumult, and one man furiously tore up $250 worth of tickets for subsequent performances...
...When the tumult of campaign subsides for a moment, McCloskey himself seems unclear about his future. It's not the kind of movement that is likely to succeed. His candidacy, a frenzied expression of acute frustration backed by little money, a small organization and few definitive domestic programs, he often seems gloomy about the outcome...
Niebuhr's theology was often called an American version of Karl Earth's neo-orthodoxy, but Niebuhr was very much an American original. He himself criticized Barth for being too controlled by the Bible and so far above the social tumult that he fostered "eschatological irresponsibility." For the past four decades, Niebuhr has been preeminent in his field, the greatest Protestant theologian born in America since Jonathan Edwards. Last week Niebuhr died at 78 in Stockbridge, Mass., the same town where Edwards once lived in exile-banished for his too-demanding theology. The funeral was held...
...these forms of exploitation and domination that are being challenged by the revolt of modern forces of production as a whole against bourgeois relations of production. And the fall of contemporary Bastilles will usher in a new and a different world. For as one contemplates a world in tumult and a world in travail, the riposte is inescapable: "And yet-it moves...
...remain the preserve of Republican Ronald Reagan, who has outcharmed, outfoxed and outspent his dogged Democratic foe, longtime speaker of the California assembly, and until he shed 100 Ibs., the "Big Daddy" of California politics, Jess Unruh. Four years ago, Reagan saddled the Democrats with the responsibility for tumult on the campuses, and the saddle-despite four years of Reagan rule-remains firmly affixed to his foes. Although he is way ahead, Reagan warns.his confident supporters that "I don't want to be the Tom Dewey of 1970"-and hits hard. He warns of the "barbarians among...