Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hoped to see the Divinity School "become sensitive" to the injustices of society. During the two days of Paul Olimpieri's sanctuary, however, Stendahl refused to confront those injustices. He was under no obligation either to defend or to oppose the politics of Olimpieri's action; but without a word about politics, without a word about the war, and without a word about the Divinity School's stand on draft resistance, Stendahl could have responded to the situation. As a man in the service of God, he could have faced the young Marine and said, "We share your troubled conscience...
Through all my travels in Greece my overwhelming impression was of the reticence of the people. They just won't talk to anyone unless they know him quite well. Many have been imprisoned for long periods for seemingly trivial offenses. The papers carried word of a man convicted of subverting the state because he played a record by Theodorakis, the greatest modern Greek composer, who happens to be a communist. A similar five year sentence was delivered against a man who had spoken out against the colonels on a public street...
...Terrorism" is not the first word one would seize upon to describe Israel. Yet in a country most often characterized by a paradox and change, terrorism is one of the few constants. It is not particularly widespread, and one might think that Israelis would have little trouble going through a day without thinking about it. But they all do. Anything that happens to one Israeli because he is an Israeli affects the entire country...
...here he faltered, seeking a word he could not remember. After a long pause, he turned and inquired, "There are two political parties in England, the Labor Party and what's the other...
...State Department sent word of the current reductions to the 18 participating European countries last week, citing as cause the need to cut down on American travel abroad. A member of the Institute of International Education, the coordinating body for Fulbrights in the United States, commented in New York yesterday that student exchange with Great Britain, the largest and most attractive program to American students, "has in all probability been wiped...