Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit to Washington last week, Eban argued eloquently against any settlement "imposed" by outside powers, and pressed that view in meetings with President Nixon and Secretary of State William Rogers. While not necessarily disagreeing with Eban, Rogers suggested that the U.S., Russia, Britain and France could provide "genuine assistance" to both sides in agreeing on a peace package...
...bugging. White argued that the adversary system entitles the defendant to see all the records of improper eavesdropping, and if it seems worthwhile, to try to prove that the eavesdropping has "tainted" the Government's case. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Abe Fortas generally shared White's view. But on the other hand, Fortas said, the judge alone should be allowed to decide whether to turn over to the defense any portion of the record that the Government claims would, if disclosed, damage "national security interests...
...rage for relevance often seems to induce the opposite effect: the more programs strive to be with it, the farther they veer from recognizable life. The view of youth as a vast criminal conspiracy relieved only by Mod Squad's undercover trio is hardly building bridges over the generation gap. Yet TV seems content to maintain the myth-until a new one comes along...
...original sin"-did it become a basic part of church doctrine. For Augustine, as for many theologians since, the idea of a primordial sin helped explain one of religion's oldest mysteries: the existence of evil in a world supposedly created by a good God. In his pessimistic view, man was himself the culprit, woefully evil because his soul was imprisoned in an utterly fallen body, incapable of good unless drawn to it by the grace of Christ. In answer to the British monk Pelagius, who preached that man could save himself by good works without the initial prodding...
...worldwide TV audience had a close-up view of the astronauts when they splashed down and as they emerged from the bobbing spaceship they call Gumdrop. As the Guadalcanal moved to within 100 yards of the spacecraft, TV cameras on the deck zoomed in to show Astronauts David Scott, Russell Schweickart and James McDivitt tumbling into inflated rubber rafts-a surprisingly awkward operation after the precise maneuvers and sophisticated procedure of the space flight...