Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...technical endeavors. To accomplish this, communications had to be re-established between the two distinct worlds of science and of the Church. A breach between them has not always existed. In the days of Aquinas, for instance, science and religion were not yet alienated. But since then, a gradual process has drawn them apart. Teilhard has attempted to reverse this movement. And he has succeeded...
...worldwide discussion, became the focus of an emotional U.S. debate. Four weeks ago, bent on penetrating the cloud of ignorance and misinformation that shrouds the argument, TIME'S editors began work on this week's cover story. In so doing, they set in motion a journalistic process unique in its functioning and unrivaled in its ability to cut to the heart of great issues...
Wrote the leftish New Republic, which spends considerable energies attacking Vice President Nixon: "Mr. Rockefeller can [now] give more attention to clarifying the issues ... If, in the process, he lifts the level of political debate, it will be to everyone's advantage. It may even generate some new ideas for the Democratic platform and help that party to avoid the temptation of spending all its energies in a negative attack on the Vice President." One rising young congressional Democrat, understandably claiming anonymity, lamented that Rockefeller was "the only man in either party who has been free of the responsibility...
...many a union orator, automation is a sinister business for eliminating jobs. In the current steel dispute (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) the problem of increased efficiency through automation and job changes is the chief block to a settlement. But is automation the painful process for workers that is often pictured? Last week there were growing signs that U.S. industry is meeting the problems of automation in an enlightened...
Thayer cites the case of a loth century ambassador named Liudprand. who represented the Holy Roman Emperor in Constantinople and in the process was insulted, nearly starved, and quartered in a house with a leaking roof, which also lodged several unfriendly lions. Nearly 1,000 years later, in 1934, when U.S. Ambassador William Bullitt set up the first post-revolution U.S. embassy in Moscow, he was not troubled by lions, but otherwise, suggests Thayer, he got equivalent treatment...