Word: objections
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...graying, former college basketball star, the Rev. Louis Gigante is no stranger to conflict. The Roman Catholic priest once broke up a city council meeting to protest official indifference toward his impoverished, crime-ridden parish in the South Bronx. He has picketed FBI offices to object to, among other things, identification of his brother Vincent as a Mafia soldier. Now Gigante is engaged in another battle. With the grudging acquiescence of his archbishop, New York's "fighting priest" is running for Congress. "People tell you all the time that a priest should not be a candidate, and they...
...strike's object was to suspend "business as usual" in protest. But to suspend art as usual seemed a perverse gesture with unsettling symbolic implications. "Empty walls," said Guggenheim Director Thomas Messer, "are in themselves a sobering comment on violence and coercion of every kind...
...Andrei Amalric, the defiant young writer who was the object of the KGB's attention, may not feel quite so cheerful about it. Amalric, 32, is the author of Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?, which openly predicts the downfall of the Soviet system (TIME, Dec. 19). Ever since the book was published in the West earlier this year, observers of the Moscow scene have wondered how he managed to avoid arrest. One unlovely theory was that Amalric was part of a KGB plot to infiltrate the dissident Soviet intellectual community. "The subject of my possible arrest," complained...
...Braden sums up the returns, Americans have been done in by technology. They have become producers and consumers first, people second. "The instrumentalization of things" has led to "the instrumentalization of man." Man has become the ultimate object of his own manipulation. He is in danger of engineering his own humanity out of existence: "We have met the enemy...
violent activities which he feels a large number of older people still object. "It will be an expression of the students' sense of urgency," he said...