Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evils. Yet in religious terms, physical destruction, no matter how horrible, can never be the worst evil. It makes me shiver when it is implied that we should allow ourselves if necessary to be conquered." Others argue that the bishops are overstepping their worldly authority. Says conservative Catholic Columnist William F. Buckley: "I resent what must be viewed as a certain political opportunism. The bishops are entitled to a presumption of moral attention, but there is no presumption of their enjoying a special knowledge on these matters...
...coming from conservative circles. In a forthcoming study, the Washington-based Heritage Foundation will take the U.N. to task for promoting a double standard on human rights, being consistently anti-American and antibusiness and aiding Marxist guerrillas. Calling upon the U.S. to downgrade its participation at the U N Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, argued two weeks ago: this is our chance to call...
...copy of that letter, along with a draft containing his own anti-boycott stance, to law students over the summer. The national media also obtained copies of the letter and quoted from it in articles about the boycott, most of which criticized the boycotting student for what one columnist called "banal ethnocenricism...
Hindsight suggests that Harry Truman at first had trouble understanding when he was talking privately and when he was not. At dinner with 200 members of the Reserve Officers Association in 1949, Truman got worked up over criticism of his crony, Major General Harry Vaughan, and called Columnist Drew Pearson an "s.o.b." The White House purged the transcript, but it was too late. Gasped the Chicago Sun-Times: "The dirty phrase used by Mr. Truman has shocked millions who feel that every President becomes a symbol for clean-minded youth...
...week to assure wary residents that Britain was aware of its "moral obligation to the people of Hong Kong. Our differences can be reconciled," she insisted. "We can reach a solution acceptable to China, the people of Hong Kong and Britain." Most Hong Kong residents remained unconvinced. Said Newspaper Columnist Margaret Ng: "People here are not confident that the Chinese government or the British Prime Minister will put the interests of Hong Kong people first...