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Last week Cox delivered the first comprehensive statement of his new perspective in a three-part lecture series at Harvard on "The Secular Search for Religious Experience." In his first two talks, he dwelled on what he called the root problem of contemporary religion-the "immolation of history," or the tendency of modern man to rebel against his past. The rejection of history, Cox argued, not only throws out the good of tradition with the bad, but "can result in a corrosive contempt for the present." In his third lecture, entitled "Christ the Harlequin"-appropriately accompanied by psychedelic strobe lighting...
...Deal, draping the cape of Franklin Roosevelt over his own presidency by reciting the Administration's record on Medicare, education, the war on poverty, and social security benefits. The Great Society, said Johnson-invoking a term that has been notably missing from recent presidential pronouncements-is "taking root. It is thrusting up; it is reaching out to banish need and to bring new hope into millions upon millions of lives...
Grim Search. The Americans, much less the Saigonese, can hardly be blamed for some nervousness. The battalions of U.S. troops that were brought into Saigon to root out the V.C. gunmen have mostly been withdrawn, but platoons of South Vietnamese airborne troopers last week continued a grim house-to-house clearing operation in Saigon's environs. Hard-core V.C. snipers continued to fire on U.S. military police and Vietnamese army patrols from rooftops and windows in Cholon. The government makes its presence felt all over Saigon. Police or soldiers guard almost every corner, have set up checkpoints throughout...
...third of the state's 1,800 schools were closed and 500,000 children went untaught. The strike culminated an angry year-long dispute over school finances between flamboyant Governor Claude Kirk and militant members of the Florida Education Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association. The root of the trouble goes back to Kirk's 1966 election campaign, in which he promised to produce something of a political miracle: to hold state taxes steady and at the same time make Florida "first in the nation in education." State educators dismissed the incompatible promises as idle oratory...
Lichtheim's comments on German history, then, will serve as a nice demonstration of his fundamental idealism. "The basic fact about German history since the eighteenth century," we are told, "has been the failure of the Enlightenment to take root." Why did it fail to thrive? In an essay entitled "The European Civil War," we learn that "national attitudes in the three countries [France, Germany and Italy] were different, and that the difference went back to the impact of the French Revolution." This is some help, but not much, for we now want to know what factors determined the reception...