Word: handful
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Only occasionally does he get emotional and turn away from his prepared notes. In response to heckling last week his temper rose, "Since when does the public have the right to take the law into its own hand? Since when do tenants get their rights by threatening violence...
...lake glittered under a westering sun and in the meadow close at hand peasants were reaping golden rye. In Finland the age of myth and legend is still just around the corner and doors stand open to the great winds which blow from the past out of the Kalevala, the Sagas and the Edda. Let me give you an idea of how close it is. That evening these same peasants were cooking their supper over a fire of twigs on a raised, open hearth. The hearth was like the one you see on the stage in Act I of Wagner...
...other hand, such dissolution and the elimination of Soc Rel as a major field would deprive undergraduates of the largest and most secure refuge from which to retain some hope of obtaining a (dare I say it?) liberal education which evades the iron claws of pain and pleasure reaching out from the board rooms of the earth to ensure an orderly transition from thinking human beings to well-disciplined, highly specialized technologists. "Cut this inter-disciplinary crap, Winkhorst, specialist discipline is the only discipline . . . Cook 'em all down to decorticated canine preparation...
Ceylon was the last stop, and a surprising one. There the Pope was greeted by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike and a crowd of at least 500,000. The country's highest ranking Buddhist monk was on hand to declare that the Pope's visit "will help all us Ceylonese to live like brothers." In his reply, Paul diplomatically praised the country's "courageous social policy...
...Pope? In the Philippines, despite considerable social concern among the younger Catholic clergy since World War II, the hierarchy, especially Rufino Cardinal Santos, is too closely identified with the Establishment. To a growing number of critics, the church is still the handmaiden of riches and privilege. On the other hand, there is a woeful shortage of priests (about one for every 7,000 Catholics), and the predominantly Catholic population remains largely unaware of many teachings of the faith. In a poll taken shortly before the Pope's visit, 60% of those interviewed did not know who the Pope...