Word: uttered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with frequent glances over his shoulder at history, he dismisses the idea that any ideology holds the key to successful revolution, and the idea that any successful revolution can possibly hold the key to paradise. At the heart of Alinsky's theory of political and social change is his utter rejection of belief in apocalypse. He no more believes that radical action can bring eventual salvation to the whole world than he believes that a world without radical change will suddenly...
...case, the defendant repeated that she did not make or approve the telephone calls. She submitted a letter from her House Master who said that after talking to the defendant, he felt she did not make the calls and that she held the concept of harassing telephone calls "in utter contempt...
...Your report [April 5] on the Dalton School was most unfair. Instead of heaping snide ridicule on the school and Mr. Donald Barr, its headmaster, you should have reported that a group of trustees, in utter disregard of the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the parents, has attempted to oust Mr. Barr. The P.T.A. removed Dr. Myron Hofer, the only representative of the parents on the board of trustees, from his P.T.A. offices because he failed to in form the parents fairly and openly of his and the board's actions. The parents will continue...
...warning against violence; he notes the mistakes of "certain members of the church who have attempted violent and radical solutions." But his letter is an insistent demand on the Christian conscience for action. He says: "It is not enough to recall principles, state intentions, point to crying injustices and utter prophetic denunciations. These words will lack real weight unless they are accompanied for each individual by a livelier awareness of personal responsibility and by effective action...
...there is a deep sardonicism in his personality, a self-deprecating sense of humor which he would sometimes use to disarm his colleagues and at other times to make straightforward remarks which he would never have dared utter in a serious vein. "My problem," he once said to a Faculty coleague with a trace of a grin, "is that I was born arrogant"; the remark of a man who either thought himself above reproach or was perhaps entirely too blind about the roots of his own scornfulness...