Word: bolds
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...demand in most circumstances. This legal challenge to the age-old Catholic teaching that abortion is equivalent to murder forced the bishops to adopt a style of political propaganda and maneuver that, until then, had been more characteristic of liberal Protestants. For Catholicism, the abortion decision was a bold attack on human life and dignity. The radical change produced reflection upon other "life" issues, especially the arms race. Says Bernardin: "If you take a strong stand against abortion as the unjust taking of human life, then you cannot remain indifferent to nuclear warfare...
...poll results are very meaning full. It's telling the faculty to abandon the tried and true criteria and to become more bold in its hiring practices." William Hunter, a Law School Student Council member, said last week...
Hinton has delivered the same message before, but never in such bold language. He clearly had in mind the U.S. congressional hearings on El Salvador that are scheduled for January, when the Reagan Administration must once again certify that the country has made progress on human rights and social reforms to justify the approval of a requested $166.3 million in U.S. military and economic aid during fiscal 1983. Of particular concern to the Administration is the refusal of a Salvadoran judge to try a local army officer who has been accused of ordering the 1981 murders of two U.S. land...
DIED. King Vidor, 88, bold but adaptable Hollywood director who made his first full-length movie (The Turn in the Road) in 1919 and acted in his last one (Love and Money), released earlier this year; of congestive heart failure; in Paso Robles, Calif. Born in Galveston, Texas, Vidor favored epic spectacles and epochal statements in such movies as War and Peace (1956) and his 1925 antiwar triumph, The Big Parade. "My heroes," said Vidor, "don't bellyache; they wake up and they work for changes...
...child of both centuries, Karen embodied the strictures of the old and the morale of the new. She obeyed a series of mottoes: "It is necessary to sail, it is not necessary to live"; "Be bold. Be bold. Be not too bold." Another, often repeated, writes Thurman, was that the final word as to what you are really worth "lies with the opposite sex." That value was assayed in a series of lifelong flirtations, romantic failures and a doomed marriage to her cousin Bror Blixen. The couple quixotically exchanged Bror's family farm in Denmark for acreage in Kenya...