Word: worth
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Although Knowland's warning about the lulling effect of coexistence talk was worth voicing, he had blatantly disregarded the fact that he is not "any Senator." He is the majority leader, who is supposed to represent the Administration on Capitol Hill. This was by no means his first major open difference with Administration policy, e.g., he supported the Bricker amendment, and has repeatedly called for a break in diplomatic relations with Russia. It is not the Knowland practice to argue with Administration officials and then, if he must, publicly disagree. He takes his stand against the Administration without...
...cult counsels "personal adjustment." But adjustment to what? New Testament Christianity is hardly adjusted to its environment. It makes us seriously wonder, in fact, how much the social order is worth adjusting to. The gospel urges us to nonconformity: "Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed." An evil aspect of peace-of-mind religion is its acceptance, by default, of the social status quo. But its greatest sin lies in using God as a means for human ends. This is blasphemous. A rhapsodic inquiry greets us from the TV screen and the radio: "Have you talked...
Last week Orthodox Jewish leaders, meeting in Atlantic City for the annual convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, were agitated by a brand-new effort to make divorce more trouble than it is worth. Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary and leader of the Conservative Jewish movement in the U.S.,* announced the formation of a new marriage court, to which all couples in Conservative congregations must henceforth bring their marital problems for adjudication and possible settlement before taking divorce proceedings. Couples who ignore the new body or fail to follow...
...that Bobby has learned more than enough. He has been a football hero ever since his school days. Born in the "little bitty ol' town" of Santa Anna, Texas (pop. 1,600), Bobby was only six years old when his father died and he was sent to Fort Worth to live with an aunt and uncle. By the time he was ready for junior high, his adopted parents moved to Dallas, where he teamed up with a boy named Doak Walker on the football field of Highland Park High School...
...would face such a program of science tutorial, if it were established: unless a high quality of tutors were maintained, discussions might degenerate into numerical problem sessions. A general committee should be established to choose tutors of such calibre that this could not happen. Because the program must be worth the tutor's time, some sanctions should be employed to assure that every science student would prepare for the discussion, and complete the necessary reading and papers. Using the flexible standard of "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory" the tutors could submit reports on the students; satisfactory reports would be required...