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...confess before God and the world," the report said, "that we have been guilty of the sin of conformity to the world, that we have often followed the vain traditions of men instead of the mind of Christ, and that our silence and fear have all too frequently made us stumbling blocks instead of stepping-stones in the area of race relations. In a spirit of true repentance, we prayerfully rededicate ourselves to the Christian ministry of reconciliation between Negroes and whites...
...Robert M. Hutchins, 66, dubbed 1965 Father of the Year for his lifelong devotion to education, carried right on in the same vein. Accepting a standing ovation from the 1,200 guests, he thought he heard "derisive laughter in the background from my kids, saying 'What-that egocentric, vain, busy man who never has any time for us-he's Father of the Year?' ' Then how come he received the award? "Damned if 1 know-they just told...
...Bullfight. The black-armbanders refused to sit down, stood hooting and hollering around the edges of the hall. The chairman of the meeting, Angela Mischke, 23, a graduate in Russian history, pleaded in vain "Please sit down." Cried Fred Ciporen: "These people are standing for a reason! If you ask them to sit down, you're missing the point." Finally a semblance of order was achieved, and Conlon began by comparing the meeting to a bullfight where the crowd had just shouted "Let the bull come out!" Asked for a general statement of the U.S. position in Viet...
...that the quick-draw days are over, she has popped back into fashion with hairy sculptures tattooed with more images, inscriptions and plain gunk than any statue in the park. Her Sappho, lounging beneath a tree fruited with a skull, slouches like an Eve who has waited in vain for Adam a thousand years. Or France's Arman, 37. He accumulates things like a surplus-parts dealer and freezes them in polyester. His transparent collages in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art's current assemblage show, contain heaps of real oil gauges, fan blades, or teapots. Very...
...want democracy, at least nominally. It is a coveted political status symbol, a powerful fetish. Yet Jefferson and Burke might very well lose their faith in reason or possibly flip their whigs, if they could survey some of the systems that today take democracy's name in vain...