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...delegates and observers lustily clapped their approval, for in recent years, both the N.C.C.'s mainstream Protestant members and the conservative evangelical churches have more and more come to realize - as one of the most eloquent social activists, Harvey Cox of Harvard's Divinity School, put it - that the conflict between evangelism and social action is "mistaken." Evangelical churchmen, such as Graham and Christianity Today Editor Carl Henry, now increasingly stress that spiritual conversion inevitably finds expression in action for the social good. Similarly, National Council leaders have become more aware that activism without spiritual underpinnings is religiously...
...progressed to the point where there are no longer specifically Polish interests to be protected or promoted. If middle-class Poles are unhappy about the Democrats, it is because of civil rights or welfarism as threats to their economic wellbeing." They find security by losing themselves in the mainstream of American life; they find any specific appeal to their Polish identity somehow insulting...
...further "the basic mainstream thinking" in the G.O.P.: he wants to help nominate a moderate or a liberal. He has not for gotten the thunderous catcalls from the Goldwater gallery at San Francisco's Cow Palace in 1964, and he is determined to prevent the conservatives from capturing the party again. "I stood up to them once, you know. I tell you, we can really stand up to them this time." "Them" this time means Reagan, and when he was asked last week about his differences with the California conservative, Rockefeller said with a grin: "Well...
Aside from describing the average subscriber, the profile gives a few fascinating glimpses of that small group outside the mainstream: the 3% who serve Irish whisky, the 5% who own organs, the 2% who drink bottled water. We worry about the 6% who have no life insurance. What do the 1% who own vacant lots plan to do with their property? And will the 2% who have only a grade-school education go on to higher learning...
...left of the community-scorned as near apostates by Jews who observe Halacha (religious law)-are the minority of Reform Jews, similar in their modernizing views to American Conservative Judaism, and the Liberals, who theologically conform roughly to the Reform movement in the U.S. Representing the mainstream of Orthodoxy -and most of the wealthy Anglo-Jewish families-is the United Synagogue, which governs 80 congregations in Greater London. Although it defends the full authority of Halacha, the United Synagogue is nonetheless suspected of liberal tendencies by the militant Federation of Synagogues, which was founded by recent emigrants from Eastern Europe...