Word: banishment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decide on the orthodoxy of any tenured teachers appointed to those faculties. In addition, if the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith decides a professor is not orthodox, Baum will handle official discipline. He concurred in the recent decision to investigate Belgian Theologian Edward Schillebeeckx and to banish West Germany's Hans Küng from a Roman Catholic faculty. The church, Baum insisted to TIME'S Wilton Wynn, has a "just claim" on its theologians: "Our task is to present the message of Christ as transmitted by the Roman Catholic Church. The public...
...describes an ideal society of animals, played by Lar Lubovitch dancers in sparkling and outlandish costumes. The storyteller for the three-minute dance-and-cartoon visual presentation tells of an elephant who "moves huge boulders and lifts great trees" to find watering holes for its fellow animals. The animals banish the elephant, accusing it of drinking more than its share of water, not realizing that it needs the water for its great tasks and size. But when the watering hole runs dry, the animals realize their mistake and take the elephant--who has found a new watering hole--back...
...enforced male sterilization and slum clearance that took place during the emergency, the arrest of tens of thousands of political opponents, the censorship of the press. Mrs. Gandhi had successfully appealed to the elemental needs and concerns of India's rural masses with her two election slogans: "Banish Poverty" and "Law and Order." Combining charisma with extraordinary endurance, she had given as many as 20 campaign speeches a day on a 40,000-mile, 63-day campaign tour of 384 constituencies, during which she was seen and heard by an estimated 240 million people. None of her opponents remotely...
...villagers of Rae Bareli in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the vigorous woman in the beige sari electioneering under a roadside arbor was a haunting apparition from India's political past. Raising an orange-colored bullhorn, she repeated her blunt and simple slogan: "Banish poverty!" Seizing upon the issue of most urgent concern to her peasant audience-the high price of onions -she promised not only to fight inflation but to bring the bounty of the welfare state closer to home. "I don't know whether you've had any government aid here," she shouted grandly...