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...long as the poor are considered incapable of constructive effort in their own behalf, programs to help them will be confined largely to welfare handouts. Coles is convinced that handouts alone are no help and eloquently pleads for an alternative plan: to bring all deprived groups into the mainstream of society, not as passive recipients of governmental largesse but as active molders of their own lives...
When Barry Goldwater ran for President, we heard a great deal from liberal circles about the need for "moderation" in politics. Liberal Republicans who fought Goldwater's nomination spoke of the need to appeal to the "mainstream" of American thinking. In the meantime, Lyndon Johnson got support from the left by default, played consensus politics and won in a landslide...
...methods were not producing enough lasting converts; Hoyt pointedly blamed his "watered-down Gospel." When he entered the Children of God, he took many of the Atlanta Jesus People with him. Linda Meissner, however, took far fewer of her Jesus People Army along-and indeed the feud between the mainstream Army (including Linda's husband John Salvesen) and her splinter group has scandalized Seattle's Jesus People...
...pledge to do so, and gave the impression that merely replacing Attorney General Ramsey Clark with a man like John Mitchell would work wonders. It did not; crime is still rising. While blacks have not been rioting, Nixon has done little to make them feel in the mainstream of the nation's life. Three times in the past year the watchdog U.S. Civil Rights Commission attacked his enforcement of civil rights legislation, once describing it as "less than adequate." Nixon repeatedly made plain his opposition to busing to achieve school integration, even as the courts often continued to encourage...
Father Murray's non-controversiality, his mainstream ideas, lack of enemies, and at least minimal contact with all the camps within the Church in large part reflect the reasoning behind his coming to St. Paul's. An attempt is being made this fall to rediscover the meaning of Catholic community, a universal community bonded together in its beliefs, traditions, and common humanity, and drawing strength from its diversity and conflicts--a community that can comfortably include Richard Griffin's, Ann Kelley's, Dick Shmaruk's, and Edward Murray's distinctive Catholic styles. If Catholics are to maintain a sense...