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...talking about Alabama, says the Rev. Harvey Hollis of the Denver Area Council of Churches, "we always arrive back here." The most striking aspect of the Selma spirit is the consensus, expressed by Episcopal Rector Stephen Pressey of Shelby, Ohio, that "ministers are missing the boat if all they do is agitate." Instead of dreaming about bigger and better marches, church leaders appear to have returned with renewed zeal to tackle the major problems of the Negro in the North-education, housing and job opportunity. And, thanks to the astonishingly wide interfaith representation in Alabama-from conservative Lutheran to Orthodox...
Millis manages to obscure the crucial role that this consensus plays in his scheme by insisting that he would work no basic change on the international system. What evidence does he adduce then, to support his optimism about this consensus? First he cites the past decade of peace among the major powers and concludes that violence has been permanently localized. Second, he points to the ability of the two major alliances to settle peacefully their internal disputes, and extrapolates from their success to a vision of world stability. In both cases he refuses to admit that the presence of nuclear...
Still another rule requires that a potential candidate play an active role in key issues on which there is a national consensus. Romney was the first major political personality to lead a civil rights sympathy march last month after the Selma violence. Only last week, he visited the husband of Viola Liuzzo, told him that his wife was "like Joan...
Will L.B.J. be able to produce what he has promised? Shannon has his doubts. Johnson's "programs are designed to evade rather than confront the hard issues. He believes in consensus, not conflict. The barbecue school of politics is not based on any belief in redistributing wealth or disturbing anyone's existing privileges; rather, it presupposes there is enough meat, and gravy too, for everyone at the tables." Johnson's small-scale proposals on health, education and poverty are tied to a "neverending economic expansion," writes Shannon. If the economy falters or fails to expand very fast...
...mind of the church is not yet "mature" on the subject. Thus, even though millions of married Catholics hang intently on the decision, prudent Pope Paul may choose to say nothing at all, preferring to wait for some new medical discovery or the evolution of a firm theological consensus...