Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clash between American Democracy and Catholic Power arises, as Blanshard shows, because this control which the Church seeks to exert is necessarily illiberal, since it denies the right of "error" (in other words, any view which disagrees with the Church's official position) to be heard. Blanshard's book is a carefully documented study of how the Church is now trying to exert this control in the United States. What makes "American Democracy and Catholic Power" worthy of wide circulation is that most Americans are unaware of the extent of the Church's success in this effort at control...
...strategy involves threats of boycott to offending newspapers, magazines, movie producers and distributors, and radio stations; establishment of a separate school system and attempts to infiltrate and control the public school system; and attempts to force legislative bodies, by the customary pressure group means, to impose the Roman Catholic view on a disagreeing but non-militant citizenry...
...From his own point of view, he said, one of the most important features of the report was this passage...
Communism is also a point of view. It is a point of view many intelligent men have honestly reached. And it is a point of view that President Conant and his colleagues on the Educational Policies Commission want studied in American schools and colleges. But the Commission would prevent intelligent Communists from teaching that point of view--not because they might be incompetent teachers, not because they might propagandize or exclude unfavorable textbooks, but because they might propagandize or exclude unfavorable textbooks, but because they would as communists automatically do these things. This is an attitude of fear. The Commission...
East from the jagged wall of the Andes stretches the green, sealike wilderness of Bolivia's Oriente. In its lonely towns, descendants of Spanish aristocrats gravely toast the kings of Spain by candlelight; its brown-skinned, barefoot rubber gath, erers get their only view of the outside world from old film plays. In jungle-hemmed clearings jaguars and blood-sucking bats prey on the settlers' cattle. Along the region's sluggish, yellow rivers, savage bush Indians hunt heads and shoot arrows at low-flying airplanes. Occasionally, from the principal cities of Santa Cruz...