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...other protagonist was articulate, patrician John V. Lindsay, 44, a WASP product of the Ivy League and the winner of four terms as Congressman from Manhattan's 17th ("Silk Stocking") District, who took over as the city's first Republican mayor in 20 years the week the strike began. Quill's unconcealed enmity toward Lindsay was partially a product of their sharply different backgrounds, but it stemmed largely from the new mayor's unmistakable determination to bring a semblance of order and responsibility into the city's labor relations-a determination that Quill...
...Growth v. Pilgrimage. Karl Barth has pointed out, said Presbyterian John Oliver Nelson, that the difference between Catholics and Protestants begins with the first word of the Creed. For the Protestant, credo is a creative assertion and a declaration; for the Catholic, a statement of acceptance and assent. It is no wonder, then, added Dean John Coburn of Massachusetts' Episcopal Theological Seminary, that even the language of spirituality in the two traditions differs. "In the Catholic world," he said, "spirituality is interpreted to be the growth in grace that comes in the life of an individual member...
Also rejected by the Reformation was the Catholic concept that it is possible to get spiritual help through others besides God. Even today, notes Quaker Douglas V. Steere of Haverford, Protestants are highly suspicious of any claims "that would declare, or even imply, that the priest, or the saints, or the Virgin, or the institutional church stand as an indispensable intermediary." Thus Protestantism puts a stronger emphasis upon individual responsibility in prayer and worship than does Catholicism...
...Carroll V. Gines and Wendell F. Moseley. 203 pages. Lippincott...
When John V. Lindsay became Mayor of New York City on January 1, the strike deadline laid down by the Transport Workers was only five hours away and negotiations had already been broken off. Twelve days later, Wall Street businessmen are still bitch-hiking to work, and garment center laborers aren't getting to their jobs...