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...executive director, the Rev. Dan M. Potter. Last week, though, some 20 young ministers led an angry anti-Hope revolt at a meeting of the council's General Assembly. "There is nothing in Mr. Hope's record showing public commitment to the three pressing issues that confront the council-poverty, racial justice and peace," said the Rev. Richard J. Neuhaus of Brooklyn's St. John the Evangelist Lutheran Church. Hope is known rather for his "uncritical endorsement of the military establishment and the Indochina war." After prolonged debate, the delegates decided to switch the award...
...words!" In one of his pictures, a woman in an Elko, Nevada, casino reaches for the dice so intently her arm becomes, with slight blur, a serpent's tongue. Frank understood best the absolute respect the still image must have for reality, and the duty the photographer has to confront people in the reality of their daily lives...
...sexual psychopath-though his tentative adventures with a bi-sexual Negress nymphomaniac are so scantily drawn as to give the impression that Jones has mellowed with his marriages-yea, even become family-minded and moralistic. To read Gallagher-Hartley dialogue is to watch an author's dark urges confront his brighter ones, the latter, of course, winning out. After all, this is a Book-of-the-Month. The supporting characters-wives, mistresses, children-all sound like drillmasters...
...that capitalism produces-things that don't fulfill our real needs, but feed false, alien needs and wants; the artificial needs that keep the system going. And as women, we're forced to fit ourselves into these roles and categories: sex object and/or housewife. Wherever we turn, these images confront us, demand that we live up to their standards and their definitions...
...conference wasn't really concerned with that at all. The strategy had already been decided. One more time, we're going to pack our knapsacks and head to Washington. One more time we're going to march past the White House. One more time we're going to confront the police, and end up running in a cloud of tear gas and flying billy clubs...