Word: views
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This unlikely unanimity of view was produced by the prospect of imminent Big Four talks at the U.N. on peace in the Middle East. Washington, encouraged by a series of bilateral discussions, had proposed that U.S., British, Soviet and French negotiators begin high-level meetings this week on the possibility of an agreement, and Washington's initiative had been welcomed in the other capitals. Both Paris and London, however, insisted that there was no thought of actually imposing a solution. "I do not think such a solution would work," said British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart. "On the other hand...
...mental state, they bridle at being asked to say whether a man should be blamed for a specific act, since this goes well beyond the frontiers of their expertise. Frederick Hacker, a psychiatrist who teaches at the University of Southern California's law center, expresses a common professional view when he says " 'Should we blame him?' is a moral question, not a medical question...
...Pontifical Gregorian University. Meeting under the joint sponsorship of the Vatican and the University of California at Berkeley, and financed by the Fiat auto company's Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, two dozen scholars from eight countries set out to explore "The Culture of Unbelief." In their collective view, the world's supposed infidels are more sinned against than sinning-and sometimes more religious than those who call them unbelievers...
Part of the problem, explained Sociologist Bellah, derives from the traditional idea of belief. From the days of the church fathers, Christianity has tended to equate belief with intellectual assent to a given body of dogma. In Bellah's view, young people today see it rather as a commitment, part of a "quest for personal authenticity" that can take them into Black Power or the Peace Corps, hippiedom or Zen, drugs or sex. Some of these convictions hardly qualify as "beliefs" by any standard, and most of them are clearly not oriented toward God at all. Nonetheless, they...
Fiddler on the Roof--Now in its fifth year and still in great shape, this powerful Stein-Bock-Harnick-Robbins drama weaves Sholom Aleichem's "Tevye" stories into a panoramic view of the breakdown of tradition in Russian-Jewish society. Harry Goz is the present Tevye, and well up to snuff. At the MAJESTIC, W. 44th...