Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Carter's show of White House muscle was impressive, some problems persist. The President is having difficulty filling top jobs in his Administration, in part because potential nominees are reluctant to commit themselves to a boss who may have only a bit more than a year in power. According to Washington rumor, such top businessmen as Henry Ford II, General Electric's Reginald Jones and Xerox's Peter McColough have turned down the post of Secretary of Commerce. Carter last week approved California Federal Judge Charles B. Renfrew as Deputy Attorney General. But Renfrew...
...there persist in America two vestigial strains of anti-Catholicism. One is the old and somewhat fading nativist variety -the sort that led the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod in the past year to reaffirm its opinion that the Pope is the Antichrist. The second strain, considerably more disturbing be cause it is so much more "respectable," is the bigotry practiced by certain intellectuals, liberals, humanists and elitists...
Forms of anti-Catholicism undoubtedly persist. The deeper conflict, however, is not between the Catholic Church and other religions, or between Catholics and people of other faiths. It is between religion and humanism, between the idea of a natural moral law and moral relativism. "All of Western law," civilization which was assumes based that on the man is a postulate of creature a of God, natural argues moral Edward Hanify, a Catholic and a Boston lawyer. "The currently ascendant philosophy of humanism has an entirely different view of man: he is an autonomous being, with no external controls. Because Catholics...
...that the police are happy with Harvard. The age-old gripes persist, but they are mostly issues that confront all the 1000 or so unionized Harvard employees, and they are hardly ever solved at the bargaining table. The police union has yet to meet to discuss the demands they will present Harvard when their contract expires December 31, but job security will undoubtedly be one of their major bargaining points. In the last nine years the number of uniformed policemen has declined from 60 to 41 as the force has taken on a more administrative and computer-oriented style...
...Gregorian chants, and belonged to the Spartacus Youth League, a group of rhetoric-spouting Trotskyites who have done much to discredit leftist politics. "Chemistry is a communist plot," she grinned. "It's had free radicals for years." Then she turned and cackled to herself--a trait that would persist throughout the year--and I got the hell out of there...