Word: centrist
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...least for theologians who want to be considered believing servants of the church. Last month in Rome, 27 members of the Vatican's international Theological Commission used their fourth annual meeting to discuss how theologians could keep their intellectual pluralism within a unified faith. The trend was centrist. The conservatives were less conservative, the liberals less liberal than the year before. The commission's consensus: diversity can be allowed in forms of expression and formulation, but not in basic belief. The church needs a "missionary and pastoral pluralism" that allows for a "translation of the faith for diverse...
...more than anything else Mailer captures an atmosphere at the Republican national convention that resembles the eerie stillness at the eye of a hurricane. There Nixon, the complete centrist, rules by relocating his middle as the storm around him changes direction...
...only has he served in every Parliament since, but he has also been, at various times, Minister of Interior, Foreign Affairs, Treasury, Defense, Finance and Industry. Succeeding to the premiership last February, he guided the successful centrist strategy by which the Christian Democrats called for early elections and dropped the contentious Socialists from their coalition in favor of the right-of-center Liberals (TIME, May 22). As a result, the Christian Democrats picked up one seat in an election in which they had been expected to lose up to 30. Andreotti himself got more votes than any other candidate...
...young man's efforts to live by Dr. Modesto's mysterious philosophy of "centrism." If one could get to the center of any given situation, the center of any office or even any street corner, then success would inevitably follow. Customers rushed up to the successful centrist and demanded to buy whatever he was selling-life insurance policies, even neckties. But the young man felt a certain hollowness at the center of his life, and so he set out to find Dr. Modesto. At the very center of the U.S., he found an insane asylum...
...bottom, the McGovern question turned on two radically different perceptions of the nation's mood. Perception One: The U.S., while desiring some change-tax relief, an end to the war -remains too determinedly centrist to elect a candidate who talks of tampering fundamentally with the nation's economic structure and defense policies. The center, Political Analysts Richard Scammon and Ben J. Wallenberg wrote in 1970, is "where viclory lies. The greal majority of the voters of America are unyoung, unpoor and unblack. They are middleaged, middle-class and middle-minded." This is the America that former Nixon Campaign...