Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murderously possessive mamma forever jabbering of self-sacrifice, threatening suicide and pleading for a minimum in funerals: "Just wait till Mother's Day, wrap me in a flag, and dump me in the river." With contrasting skill, Paul Lynde plays a teen-ager's father trying to assert himself, first at home, then scene-stealingly...
...Catholicism became the dominant religion in the U.S., would the church deny non-Catholics the right to propagate their faiths? No, say both Bennett and Schlesinger. Theologian Bennett gives two reasons: 1) Catholics in democratic countries have come to see that the church does better where it does not assert authoritarian influence than in places such as Spain and Latin America; 2) more and more Catholic scholars and church leaders are coming to accept religious liberty as a matter of principle. Schlesinger feels that "most Catholic leaders have honestly accepted the pluralism of American society...
Highly Satisfactory. Against those Catholic theologians who assert that the question of religious liberty is not open to discussion by Catholics, the opposite faction contends that the encyclicals, pronouncements and other papal actions often cited by the traditionalists (e.g., the Inquisition, Pius IX's Syllabus) were contingent on specific historical situations, and are therefore subject to revision...
...investments in Latin America now exceed $11 billion." Then he blasted the Kremlin's recent unguided missives of propaganda aimed at Cuba: "Very recently in a faraway country that has never known freedom-one which today holds millions of humans in subjugation-impassioned language has been used to assert that the United States has held Latin America in a colonial relationship." Snapped Ike: "This is a blatant falsehood"-and he pointed to the U.S. record in Spanish-speaking Puerto Rico and the Philippines, in Hawaii and Alaska...