Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snooze in a car that is being chased by rednecks. Who is Moses' revolutionary mentor? Marx? Mao Tse-tung? No, it is Albert Camus, who preaches a form of rebellion that never loses sight of individual values. "It's important to recognize in the struggle certain humanitarian values," Moses told Warren, "to recognize that you have to struggle for people, and at the same time-if it's possible-you try to eke out some corner of love or some glimpse of happiness within. And that's what I think more than anything else conquers...
Died. Nathalie Henderson Swan, 83, a lifelong humanitarian who as a debutante decided in 1901 "that privilege carried with it a responsibility to the community," together with Friend Mary Harriman (Averell's sister) founded New York's Junior League, nucleus of the highly social volunteer women's service organization that now boasts 89,700 members in the U.S., Canada and Mexico; of a heart ailment; in Boca Grande...
Kemal Atatürk was the 20th century prototype of the progressive dictator. He was a man on horseback who broke the hegemony of London and Paris, overset a degenerate regime, achieved a social and political revolution and established a humanitarian tyranny...
...Lutherans, the very notion of a servant church raises a fundamental doctrinal question: What is the place of salvation by faith in a Christianity devoted to good works? And what is to prevent a church "seeking to lose itself in the world" from becoming just another humanitarian agency? German Theologian Helmut Thielicke feels that contemporary efforts to demythologize the Gospel may produce "overintellectualized" theologies comprehensible only to doctoral students in philosophy. Other churchmen question whether the theological striptease proposed by Bishops Robinson and Pike amounts to anything more than the rediscovery of classic Unitarianism...
...would have been easier to make allowances for the Africans so recently emerged from colonial rule if only they had said even one word in condemnation of rebel savagery. But no. Shrugging off the humanitarian aspect of the paratroop drop, they raged on and on about imperialist intervention. "The white is untouchable," sneered Brazzaville Congo's foreign minister. "A white, especially if his name is Carlson, is worth thousands of blacks." Guinea's representative charged that white mercenaries had "massacred hundreds and hundreds of defenseless Congolese" without a murmur from the West, because "their skins were black like...