Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success or failure of Vatican II cannot be judged merely by the bulk of written documents. More important is the spirit that brought the council together and inspired its discussions. The most apparent impact of those discussions was the bishops' self-discovery of their common responsibility for the church as a whole. By working together, says Dr. John K. S. Reid, an observer from the World Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches, "the council has enabled the Roman Catholic Church to form a common mind. At the first session nothing was decided. In the final session, a real consensus...
Charles Sims, the man, lives up to his press clippings. He is underworldly, too brazenly intimidating to be called sinister. He has beady eyes. He sneers humorlessly, through a gap in his gums where two teeth used to be. He is paunchy, but the excess bulk only adds to the overall projection of power. Somehow, one feels, that must be muscle bulging over his belt...
...chairmanships are not, to put it discretely, the University's most popular jobs. They involve all sorts of administrative trivia. Those who take them do so stoically, imbued more with a sense of duty than with any real zeal for reform. As a result, the departments, which control the bulk of every students's education, are headed by men with little time or energy to think about students--or education...
Dodge City. The real threat is on the ground, and missions near Hanoi and Haiphong are predictably the most hazardous of the air war, for it is there that the North Vietnamese have concentrated the bulk of their antiaircraft guns and SAM sites. More often than not, a key target must be cleared all the way through the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon before the pilots take off. The pilots call the JCS strikes "doomsday missions" because, as Air Force Captain Glenn R. Magathan of Chicago explains, "there's no way in and no way out without...
...what has all this to do with ending the war? Winning legal duels with local biginigs hardly influences the national public opinion. Those who wish to change public opinion should attempt to prevent it from polarizing sharply on the war issue, for that would almost certainly see the bulk of the population rushing to the defense of Flag and Country. Marches and large demonstrations almost always aggravate division of opinion...