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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...
...husband's death Mrs. Roosevelt was in London drafting the Human Rights Declaration for the U.N. Later she was its first U.S. ambassador. A reluctant but realistic cold warrior, she began by making excuses for the Russians, saying that they had "an inferiority complex," but moved on to blunt confrontations with Andrei Vishinsky, head of the Soviet delegation, over forced repatriation of refugees...
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...
...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...