Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Press Club, former Democratic Senator Paul Douglas and General of the Army Omar Bradley announced the formation of a nonpartisan Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Viet Nam. "Voices of dissent have received attention far out of proportion to their actual numbers," the committee said in a 900-word policy statement. "Our objective is to make sure that the majority voice of America is heard-loud and clear-so that Peking and Hanoi will not mistake the strident voices of some dissenters for American discouragement and a weakening of will...
What the escalation and the riots and the demands have done is to increase radical consciousness. The word is "commitment." Commitment has never been part of the make-up of Harvard liberals, and that is what is so hard...
...passion, which is a dirty word from the Freshman Mixer to the Class Marshal Elections, has reared its dread head. We are being forced to be passionate or, if we choose not, to be anti-intellectual or perhaps immoral or perhaps wrong...
...Federal Government. Although only one of the 14 actors has had any conventional theatrical experience, the company has had directorial help from such top Broadway professionals as Arthur Penn and Joe Layton. Justifiably proud of their mimetic skills, the actors are living proof, on stage at least, that a word in the hand may sometimes be worth two in the mouth. Says Managing Director Hays: "They paint pictures in the air, and it is language...
...heart attack; in Göttingen, Germany. An influential but little-known force in the shifting tide of modern Protestantism, Gogarten first joined Karl Earth in the 1920s in a revolt against liberal Christianity, postulating a neo-orthodoxy that stressed the Biblical imperatives of God's word to man. He retreated into seclusion when the Nazis took and twisted to their own ends his idea of a necessary link between theology and a dynamic' social order. After the war, Gogarten backed Rudolf Bultmann's demythologization of the Bible, and later argued, as had Dietrich Bonhoeffer, that secularization...