Word: swiftness
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...bishops' reaction to the report was swift and often angry. Most grudgingly accepted the sociological findings, which showed a majority of priests in favor of optional celibacy, but several conservatives pointedly noted that opinion polls do not determine church rules. But scathing attacks greeted a theological report on the priesthood prepared by a committee headed by Jesuit Carl Armbruster, of Illinois' Bellarmine School of Theology...
...shores of this country were threatened," says John Kerry, 27, a former Navy lieutenant junior grade, "I'd be the first to defend it." In Viet Nam, Kerry commanded a "swift boat" in the Mekong Delta. Before he went to Viet Nam he graduated from Yale, where he belonged to Skull and Bones; while in Viet Nam he won a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Kerry appeared on NBC's Meet the Press early last week and later before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Some of his rhetoric was exggerated and irrational, but there...
...woodblock, a female figure inclined upon a table in the foreground gazes backwards towards a checkerboard avenue overhung with intertwined branches of menacing black trees. Entitled "Playroom," it suggests mystery and romance, foreboding and longing. Especially admirable for its command of intent, the print is reminiscent, in the swift and clawing strokes winding around the woman's body, of certain German expressionists in its boldness and control. Heidi Pape's etching, composed of related, textured, angular and soft-cornered forms hovering and melting together, yields an impression of soft, lithe melancholy...
Early Warning. The examinations are both swift and thorough. Patients using a screening center complete their medical histories by pressing buttons to answer yes or no to questions flashed on a screen before them. Then they merely follow prerecorded instructions as they move to machines designed to measure everything from pulse rate to hearing acuity. Although a nurse is needed to take a blood sample, she need not analyze it; recently developed machines can complete up to 24 different tests on blood in less than an hour...
...academic community is never strengthened by the forcible exclusion of an idea. One great strength of an academic community is that its members, not being publicly accountable for what they say as teachers or students, are free to engage in "irresponsible" speculation, Should Jonathan Swift have been punished for his Modest Proposal that Irish babies be eaten to alleviate famine? Bad ideas should be permitted to fall of their own weight, or to provoke better ideas. We believe that the proper purpose of an academic community is to permit people, to the greatest possible extent, to stand outside society...