Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK JOURNAL (Shown on Wednesdays). This week the magazine program includes a look at all-black Roosevelt City, outside Birmingham; a report on Howard University's research on sickle-cell anemia, the debilitating blood disease indigenous to the Negro; interviews with Actor William Marshall and Playwright Ed Bullins, with an extract from the latter's A Son Comes Home; and a fascinating look at children's games compiled by Leon Bibb...
...philosophy and politics at the University of Dallas, declared that "the bishops of this nation labor mightily like elephants and then bring forth as solutions the mice of secular liberalism." The problem with liberalism, explained L. Brent Bozell, editor of the Catholic monthly Triumph (and brother-in-law of William Buckley), is its view of a world in which man is self-sufficient. "It is a question of a man-oriented order v. a God-oriented order," said Bozell. "Adam was the first liberal and the symbol of the liberal"-meaning that from the moment he touched the apple, Adam...
Quietly Determined. The U.S., meanwhile, was more immediately concerned about the export subsidies, which could put an added strain on its own trade position by increasing the flow of French goods into the country. As a result said William M. Roth, President Johnson's special representative for trade negotiations, the U.S. stood ready to "protect its interests" by imposing countervailing duties on French imports. Both American tariff law and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade provide for such duties; essentially they are designed to increase the cost of imports to offset government subsidies paid on products by exporting...
...Lynd, the history of American radicalism has been a series of accelerating "guerrilla attacks upon the right of property." A Quaker as well as a Marxist, he is at his most original in suggesting that members of Nonconformist English sects-many from the Society of Friends, as were William Penn and Thomas Paine-were the first of the guerrillas. In the latter part of the 18th century, these Dissenters argued that the only "absolute and inalienable" rights were human rights, not property rights. Bringing theology and politics into coincidence, they established conscience-the "inner light"-as the divine right...
...brings American radicals surprisingly close to what he regards as the final spiral in their evolution, "a frontal assault on the authority of the state." Enter the radicals of the 1960s right on cue, taking literally the nearly 200-year-old advice of the influential English political philosopher William Godwin, who declared that established authority has no more right to regulate an individual's actions than to regulate his thoughts...