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...news conference last week, the first Roman Catholic President of the U.S. said: "There isn't any room for debate on that subject. It is prohibited by the Constitution, and the Supreme Court has made that very clear."-At that very moment, a strong, if predictable, dissent was brewing across town in a quiet meeting of the highest prelates of the U.S. Catholic Church. Sitting as the top board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference were all five U.S. cardinals plus eight bishops and archbishops. Subject: a "Catholic position" on the Kennedy school-aid bill...
From Justice Hugo A. Black's dissent on the Supreme Court's decision upholding the conviction of Frank Wilkenson and Carl Braden for contempt of House Un-American Activities Committee...
...Faculty yesterday approved without dissent the extensive liberalization of the rules governing tutorial and the granting of the cum laude in General Studies...
After Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, 77, is the ranking German existentialist. Unlike Heidegger, who flirted briefly with the Nazis, Jaspers maintained a quiet but obstinate dissent. Ticketed for a concentration camp in 1945, he and his wife were saved by the U.S. Army's capture of Heidelberg. Though he tends to view Christianity less in orthodox terms than as a body of myth and symbols, Jaspers is a member of the Evangelical Church, and in 1946, in his book The Question of German Guilt, he bade Germans cross-examine their consciences on the war-guilt issue. Outspokenly independent...
...Expecting total success in marriage may be the cause of marriage failures." A good family should have some "discord and dissent." The principal also holds true for politics, where success can not be measured, Demos suggested. "We should not demand success where there can be none...