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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack illustrated McCarthy's technique to perfection. He opened with a series of unsupported statements about "our Kremlin directed policies" and "the planned retreat from victory." Some out-of-context quotations provided "documentation" for attacks on Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Archibald MacLeish. Then in the last twelve minutes, McCarthy got to work on Governor Stevenson...
Where he did quote some document, the Senator lifted a short passage from context and then changed its meaning by paraphrasing it. Citing the Governor's membership in a group which supports state conformity to international law, McCarthy paraphrased this to mean surrender to a super world government. The irrelevant issue of Reds in the U.N. was mixed in for good measure. In tying Stevenson to the I.P.R. he used phrases like "hidden files," "money from Moscow," "recommended by Alger Hiss" but refrained from quoting his "documentation." He referred to Stevenson as "Alger, I mean Adlai" etc., etc. The obvious...
Tillich adapted Earth's emphasis on the Bible and personal salvation, but he could not stomach the Barthian conviction that it is impossible to project the Word of God into the context of modern culture. Neither nature nor civilization is wholly evil, Tillich protested. On the contrary, he wrote, "God reveals himself not only in history but also through history as a whole." His conclusion: without losing his image of Christ as Savior, the Christian must adjust the externals of his faith, his philosophy and culture to the circumstances of the time. The Protestant religions, for example, resulted from...
With my quoted words appearing out of full context as they do, the tone of the last paragraph of your story on Soapy Williams has suggested to some that I, as a close associate in his formative years, have lost confidence in his integrity and even may have abandoned my sincere personal friendship for him. It was certainly not my intention to convey that impression...
Indignantly, Stevenson echoed a complaint by Dean Acheson that Ike had unfairly accused the Secretary of State of "writing off" Korea in a 1950 speech. "I am frankly astonished that my opponent stooped ... to the practice of lifting remarks out of context'. . . Why did he skip the Secretary's further pledge that if there should be an attack on these countries, 'the initial reliance must be on the people attacked to resist it and then upon the commitments of the entire civilized world under the Charter of the United Nations'?" Far from "writing off" Korea, said...