Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fuss over his speech. As the author of the controversial 1963 book Honest to God, he has been through it all before. "I was raising the point," he explained in a letter to the Times of London, "how most effectively do we protect the young? Is it by the blunt instrument of declaring all early teen-age sex criminal, then discrediting the law by not enforcing it? This does not seem to be very successful in preventing sex relations among young people...
...years ago Kung's blunt denial of papal infallibility in his book Infallible? An Inquiry caused him to be assailed by Catholic officialdom (TIME, April 5, 1971). Even his longtime mentor, Progressive Jesuit Karl Rahner, regretfully concluded that Küng must henceforth be dealt with as if he were a liberal Protestant. Now he has published another book, Why Priests? (Doubleday; $5.95), from which the above quotations are drawn. It will confirm Kung's Protestant proclivities in the minds of many...
There are, of course, multiple possibilities of error in such calculations. At the moment, for example, Illinois seems beyond McGovern's grasp without cooperation from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Texas, which went for Humphrey, looks ripe for Nixon because of McGovern's liberalism and the blunt opposition of John Connally, the Texas Democrat who has defected to the Republican Administration...
Department stores, city governments and auto companies all have complaint bureaus, but they are too often designed to blunt the complainer's anger, calm him down and send him away with a vague sense that he has made himself heard. In the vast distribution system, redress is lost in the ever-receding levels of responsibility. The salesgirl shrugs and says: "I just work here." A car owner takes his new-model, newly purchased car back to his dealer to complain that, say, the trunk lid no longer latches shut when slammed down. The dealer cannot...
...last week), he walks so quickly that he is halfway down the street before those with him are out the door. There is no wasted motion, no nervousness, no visible temperament. For a Polish immigrant's son like Joe, proud of his plain taste and blunt speech, an artistic temperament is soft, alien to his ideals...