Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Among other losers in state campaigns were Basil Paterson, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Adam Walinsky, Democratic candidate for Attorney General, and Allard K. Lowenstein, seeeking a second term in Congress...
...John H. Laubach, in his book, School Prayers: Congress, the Courts and the Public, writes: "The Puritan settlement . . . of Massachusetts Bay . . . established under Governor Winthrop . . . in the seventeenth century sought to join the cross and the sword in founding a new Israel, following the Calvinist model." In 1639, the General Court of Massachusetts summoned Ann Hutchinson, charging that she allowed religiously unorthodox people to meet in her home and air their unseemly doctrines. Part of the transcript of the trial reads...
...other words, we are to see it as legally the same thing if the directors of General Motors all happen to be Quakers or if all the directors of General Motors were bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church. Legally, there is no difference between being simply a member of a religious body and being under holy orders and/or in ecclesiastical officialdom. There shall be no religious test for privileges of civil (or pseudo-civil) incorporation, just as there shall be no religious test for public office. So the Bradfield decision and Drinan would have us reason...
...searches in vain for the peddlers, the panhandlers, the frightened and the lost. (There is one boy, arm-outstretched, that could be taken for a good-natured hitchhiker.) But no such human derailments are allowed in to question the general satisfaction and industriousness that Miss Westman sees as characterizing the Harvard community. Around the turn of the century, writers used to visit the slums of New York in similar fashion; off they would go in search of the picturesque, the strange and the quaint, and finding it, they would entirely ignore the poverty and disease with which it struggled. Miss...
...urban guerrillas? No government has ever made a systematic effort to develop a profile. In general, says a U.S. Government specialist, the cell member may fall into any of several categories: "A few are adventurers, in the underground for the hell of it. A few are 'crazies.' And there are some idealists of the Marxist 'useful idiot' type." More broadly, the guerrillas can range from outright criminals to blue-collar workers, from romantic, fanatic children of the elite to men of considerable intellect and courage...