Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jefferson and Congress have fundamentally changed the argument. To make independence plausible, they have had to attack the authority of George himself, to demonstrate that royal as well as parliamentary abuses of the Colonies represent crimes sufficient to justify dissolving the social compact between King and Colonists...
...throughout the campaign, flatly rejected the possibility of any coalition which involved the PCI, and the party secretary, Zaccagnini, went so far as to state that "not to confirm the DC as the indispensable governing party would severely compromise the future of democracy in Italy." This line of attack was supported by the Vatican (over the protests of leftist Catholics, including many of the clergy) and favored by the Ford administration (though not by US Embassy Press Attache William Lenderking, transferred to Bangkok because he advocated a more flexible policy with regard to the Communists...
Still, few men take as harsh a view of medicine as Ivan Illich, 51, a Viennese-born priest who now makes his home in Cuernavaca. Mexico. An iconoclast who has already attacked another major institution in his 1971 diatribe Deschooling Society, Illich zeroes in on the health industry in his newest attack and leaves no doubt as to how he regards the target. "The medical establishment," he writes in Medical Nemesis opening sentence, "has become a major threat to health...
Illich supports his thesis with a recitation of medicine's best-known faults: unnecessary surgery, the unforeseen long-term effects of certain "miracle" drugs, equipment malfunctions, malpractice. However justified, they add little if anything new to the case against modern medicine. Illich's attack is more telling when he takes up the extent to which medicine induces people to forgo control over their own lives in favor of getting as much treatment as they can. Says Illich: "Until proved healthy, the citizen is now presumed to be sick." The result, he points out, is "a morbid society that...
...begin again which makes him admire one of his friends, another Widener scholar who sat sipping coffee at the same lunch table. The woman, who also asked that her name be withheld, has been a Ph.D. mathematician and physicist in her native Austria, an antiquarian and linguist after an attack of polio, the coordinator of an African education project, the author of an article on the artist Oskar Kokoschka, and is currently a student of plants. She explained her activities without the rabbi's serious tone in what she called a characteristic "lighter vein...