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Scientific changes like the current emphasis on urbanism "alter the vocabulary of art, but not its age-old themes...
...your article "Battle Over Schools": When pressure from a certain religious denomination can strike such terror in the minds and hearts of our governmental leaders that they feel compelled to alter their legislation as this sect so desires, can we, as Americans, truly say that in this country the church and state are separate...
...school construction and/or teacher salaries. Fortnight ago, the 13 members of the administrative board ruling the National Catholic Welfare Conference-composed of more than 200 cardinals, archbishops and bishops who guide church policies in the U.S.-met quietly in Washington (TiME, March 10). After the meeting, Archbishop Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati announced that the church would oppose the bill unless it was amended to include longterm, low-interest loans to the nation's private schools, more than 12,000 of them run by Catholic groups. *To that demand, John Kennedy, at his sixth presidential press conference last week...
Last week's meeting produced a manifesto by the N.C.W.C.'s board chairman, Archbishop Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati: "In the event that a federal aid program is enacted which excludes children in private schools, these children will be the victims of discriminatory legislation. There will be no alternative but to oppose such discrimination." The N.C.W.C.'s counterproposal, which it holds to be "strictly" constitutional, is that "longterm, low-interest loans to private institutions could be part of the federal aid program." The hierarchy will push to attach such an amendment to the Kennedy bill...
...Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice. Even if every venerable college president in the country trotted forward to say "guilty" it would not alter the facts. The tragedy of it all lies in the fact that though a Southern mountain man may move more quickly to a dirty deed of violence, his feet are set no more firmly in the path of prejudice than a Lowell ambling sedately to a banging...