Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of national or corporate repentance is almost uniquely ours as Christians and Jews because of the prophetic conception of religion woven into the basic fabric of scripture. Accordingly, there have been many religious leaders in our country in both the liberal and conservative tradition who have long cried aloud with Amos "that for three transgressions and for four" we may be doomed to ever more grievous turmoil within our nation and abroad...
...perceive the uniqueness of the action in which we are now engaged, thwarted though we long seem to have been at the polls and in our pleas from the podium and in the papers, yet are we inexorably swerving the policy of our nation. And as we do this in the streets and at the polls, let us in the sanctuary not minimize or disparage the moral ground on which our government has taken its stand. It is hard to repent if your policy is based on the compassionate abandonment of the maxims of an isolationist fortress American...
...frontiers and national self-determination than the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, alongside our own grotesquely massive penetration of Vietnam and our unilateral determination of its macerated body politic. In our savage defense of "democracy" or self-determination there, most of the natural cells of village communitarian consensual democracy have long since been sucked up into our refugee and relocation camps...
Among the housing projects that will be affected by HUD's decision is a 6-acre project on North Harvard Street in Allston, Work on 212 units of moderate and low-income housing began there recently after a long and intense eviction battle...
While combating racist practices on campus does not immediately protect black people like the Panthers from being attacked elsewhere, it does give us a concrete opportunity to join what will be a very long struggle against the racism that permeates our society...