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...attacking the Administration or the Congress," said Tom Dewey's even voice of Republican opposition this week. "I am desperately concerned with where we are and where we are going [because] the whole concept of human freedom is in danger of being wiped off the face of the earth...
...makes no sense for the U.S. to reverse its concept of Formosa's strategic importance and at the same time cling stubbornly to the old, down-the-nose political attitude towards Formosa's Nationalist government. Yet so far as I can judge here, this is precisely what the U.S. State Department is undertaking to do. I can state as fact that no instructions to modify or alter in any way our political, diplomatic and military relations with the government of this island have been received by U.S. representatives here...
...cannot avoid letting the actors quote Him at second hand). It also sensibly refrains from letting the radio pronouncements touch off a spree of miracles. While trying to pave the way to heaven with good, nonsectarian intentions, it winds up as a naive theological hodgepodge, finally flattens its concept of God into a fuzzy, sentimental pantheism...
Last week, in the Niebuhr-edited fortnightly Christianity and Crisis, Protestant Theologian Niebuhr gave his answer: no. The point of view held by his questioner, Niebuhr points out, represents "a most pathetic perversion of the Christian faith and a serious misinterpretation of Communism." Far from being a Christian concept, says Niebuhr (who is a left-of-center Democrat in politics), the value and dignity of the individual is a Renaissance notion which infiltrated Christianity in opposition to the Christian doctrines of providence...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...