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...parts of the U.S. despite the real gains brought by such legislation as the Voting Rights Act and the poverty program. The big cities are in need of imaginative renewal if they are to remain livable. There are chinks in the President's all-embracing and long-enduring consensus that could widen into cracks before year's end. Under prodding to hold the line on prices, the business community is growing restless and resentful...
...real action is elsewhere, in the seething ghettoes beyond legislation. It would be a shame, however, if no one bothered to leave the trenches long enough to argue with the New Right. Maybe, just maybe, this curious agreement about "individual dignity" could be expanded into a little, ad hoc Consensus...
...magazine's dowdy Greenwich Village office. Typically acerbic articles are in the works on the federal antipoverty program, the State Department, Latin American land reform and the Viet Nam war, a special worry of Storrow's. "It is no time for government by consensus," he declares. "That tends to turn into government by apathy or government by automation, where anything can go unquestioned...
...today's youthful nihilism is undoubtedly much less alarming than it seems. Whatever political causes the apolitical American young managed to find before have virtually disappeared-hence the concentration on the few remaining ones, such as civil rights and Viet Nam. Among the young bored by prosperity and consensus government, some observers discern a special group, the "New Puritans," who may be toting a protest placard alongside an anti-everything beatnik, but with an entirely different altitude inside...
...This consensus, Reid adds, acknowledged the insights of thinkers who, before the council, were considered almost an underground minority-such as U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray, whose theories on church-state relations provided background for the religious-liberty statement. In the wake of this progressive victory has come what Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx of Nijmegen University calls "the triumph of anti-triumphal ism"-the rejection by the council of the world-hating, anathema-hurling Counter Reformation conviction that Catholicism alone possessed the truth of life. In contrast to past councils, which devoted much of their time consigning to eternal flames those...