Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...from Academician Andrei Sakharov, the gifted physicist whose 10,000-word essay outlining a scenario of economic convergence between the U.S. and the Soviet Union created a sensation among intellectuals 18 months ago. Others believed that it was written by someone who knows and shares the physicist's view, though not necessarily by Sakharov himself. Sakharov was removed from work requiring security clearance after the essay had been circulated. If the new letter is Sakharov's it indicates that he still feels sufficiently independent to write an extremely candid appraisal of the current state of Soviet affairs...
...Police Riot." When the law was first proposed, the then Attorney General Ramsey Clark testified against it, underscoring the view of many legal scholars that its blunderbuss language was constitutionally questionable and might pose a threat to legitimate political activity. One major concern: a jury might infer that the organizers of a peaceful demonstration had riotous intentions even if hecklers or militants started a ruckus. After the convention, Clark refused to invoke the new law despite Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's contention that itinerant "terrorists" had caused the tumult...
...fall of 1968, when Fasi, a onetime junk dealer and perennial political campaigner, was making his fourth attempt to win the mayoralty. Both newspapers, the morning Advertiser (circ. 72,000) and the evening Star-Bulletin (circ. 123,000), endorsed his opponent. In one issue, the Bulletin ran a photographic view of Honolulu's memorial to the battleship Arizona, marred by junked automobiles on property incorrectly identified as leased to Fasi. The candidate seethed. He seethed again when the paper enjoined its readers to "Wake Up Hawaii-Vote Republican" beneath a full-page advertisement for Democrat Fasi...
...reason that celibacy eventually became the rule for clerics was early Christianity's puritanical view of sex, even within marriage, as an evil except for procreation. "I feel that nothing more turns the masculine mind from the heights," wrote St. Augustine, the dominant voice of Christian theology until the Middle Ages, "than female blandishment and that contact of bodies without which a wife may not be had." At the same time as this austere view took root, the church saw the growth of monastic communities for men and women in which chastity, along with poverty and obedience, was regarded...
...trying to do is get her to make her own judgment. Younger women do not feel that pull of obedience," she adds. "A young person coming in might tell me my skirt is too long. But we sit down and talk things over and share our points of view...