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...accepts the framework of the society, its basic way of life and its political and ideological goals. He justifies his criticism of the Soviet Union with this key statement: "A strong man is not afraid of show-his weaknesses. I believe ... in the spiritual strength of our people and I therefore regard it as my duty to speak openly about whatever I think is wrong. This precisely is my way of expressing my love for the people and my unlimited trust in them...
While white men in Washington were arguing about civil rights legislation, the surging Negro outburst crashed beyond the limits of law, beyond the old framework of passive resistance, into a dangerous new dimension of violence. In their new mood of militancy, many Negroes were jeering down moderate leaders as "Uncle Toms" and heeding more violent voices...
...President or Prime Minister has put the rule of law at the top of his political banner," but the "rule of law can become good politics." In six days of deliberations, the jurists modestly began "the work of the law" by surveying the world's existing legal framework and making suggestions for improvement. Main conclusions...
...analysis of the workings of the Pentagon goes as follows: "I think it can best be described as a continuing dialogue between the policymaker and the systems analyst, in which the policymaker [McNamara] asks for alternative solutions to his problems, while the analyst attempts to clarify the conceptual framework in which the decisions must be made, to define alternative possible objectives and criteria, and to explore in as clear terms as possible (and quantitatively) the cost and effectiveness of alternative courses of action...
Bultmann himself later moved a step farther to the theological left and argued that to become credible for modern man, the kerygma must be "de-mythologized"-stripped of such unbelievable elements as its heaven-above, hell-below framework. But demythologizing, Robinson points out, threatened to end up with "the conclusion that the Jesus of the kerygma could well be only a myth." Deprived of its link with the historical Jesus, Christianity might end up as some kind of existentialist philosophy, of which Christ was little more than a mythological symbol...