Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arizona Catholics' marriages are breaking up at a rate similar to the general population's. Rausch spent two dreary weeks pondering the rolls of failed marriages at the diocesan tribunal. Says he: "I read how these people had suffered, and decided we had to do a better job." He summoned a task force of 25 priests, nuns and laity to develop a plan. He took the task force's subsequent recommendations, including the six-month wait, to the Priests' Senate, an advisory group elected by all priests in the diocese. Rausch suggested a more flexible waiting...
...Midnight, The Greek Tycoon) to be unfelt, but it is always a little surprising to find them so poorly observed. Almost any of the gos sip columns that provide the raw material for these films are more amusing, and more professionally managed. One suspects that there is a better story in he agentry that got Novelist Sheldon's name worked into the movie's official title than in anything that is actually up there on the screen...
...Panatta, 29, thereby silencing thousands of his screaming, chanting countrymen, who were unkindly dubbed the "Spaghetti Brigade" by the British press. The score was 3-6, 6-4, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3, and DuPre had to admit: "I seem to be picking up the game a little better...
Journalists fared somewhat better in America. Here, the press played an essential part in bringing off the American Revolution. But that did not assure popularity. George Washington came to believe that the press should be firmly "managed" and kept in its place. Jefferson, kinder to the press than to the courts, disagreed and declared grandiosely that "nature has given to man no other means [than the press] of sifting out the truth either in religion, law, or politics." (In fairness, it should be noted that later he declared himself "infinitely happier" once he had stopped all his newspaper subscriptions...
...American press is better than ever. Yellow journalism persists, but largely on the fringes of the press and is pale compared with what it was in the heyday of William RandolphHearst. One episode: Drumming the U.S. to war against Spain, Hearst sent " Artist Frederic Remington to Cuba. When Remington cabled that all was quiet, with no war in sight, Hearst fired back: "You supply the pictures, I'll supply the war." Arrogance of such magnitude is unheard of today. The sensationalist Joseph Pulitzer declared that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but the fact...