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Only in the somber final chapters, through Gethsemane and the Crucifixion, does McCowen abandon these shadings for an almost severely straightforward manner. With a sure instinct, he realizes that here a minimum of effects will achieve the greatest effect...
...ARGUMENT is a popular one, especially during times of what the syndicated columnists like to call "campus unrest." Antiadministration spokesmen will argue that only by attacking the powers-that-be with the power of the press, such as it is, can student activism gain more than a minor victory. Abandon objectivity, they counsel--isn't it really just a phantom, a golden idol that newsmen worship as an excuse for justifying the status quo? Doesn't every word imply a judgment at least implicitly? When the "objective" newsman, for instance, decides to call a military junta a "government," instead...
...attack; in Rome, where he had gone to participate in the Vatican conclave that will elect a successor to Pope Paul VI. After the Chinese Catholic Church was shattered in 1949 by the Communists, the towering Yu Pin (6 ft. 3 in.) was ordered by Pope Pius XII to abandon his diocese of Nanking for the U.S., and was condemned to death in absentia by the Communists...
...fact that Wall Street was quick to appreciate. Although Chrysler's stock jumped after the announcement, it quickly fell back, closing the week at 12.5. But experts applauded the decision. Said Arvid Jouppi, a top Detroit analyst: "Chrysler's strategy is to become strong domestically and abandon the world market. I would rather have 15% of a strong company like Peugeot than overseas assets that were too heavy to bear...
...should accept critically the findings of contemporary science; he should abandon the outmoded curial style and should speak credibly in the language of people in this...