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...rising clangor of prelate protests and pronouncements has caused consternation inside and outside the church. Some are critical of tactics. Columnist William F. Buckley sympathizes with his church's bishops on abortion but thinks they made a serious mistake in embracing one particular bill. There are disputes over the seemliness of clerical protest vigils and sit-ins. "Disgusting," says Attorney Ed ward Riordan, a parishioner in Worcester, Mass. "They will change no minds by picketing or being arrested." When Arch bishop Hunthausen termed Seattle's new nuclear-submarine base an "American Auschwitz," Navy Secretary John Lehman, moral...
...lowest at this point in his term of any President since Truman-Republicans have urged him to mount a diversionary attack on the press and find a Spiro Agnew to do the dirty work. That is not Reagan style. Besides, he likes to describe himself as "a former reporter, columnist and commentator myself " and thus knows the tricks of the trade. To Voice of America employees not long ago, he did a fast-delivery imitation of how, as a young radio sports announcer in Iowa with only minimal telegraphed clues, he embroidered on a game he could...
Perhaps such feints, bobs and weaves, which leave the impression that no confrontation is taking place, are what prompted Columnist Anthony Lewis last February to ask, "Why are editors still treating Mr. Reagan so gingerly?" He concluded that some editors and reporters are "frightened by what they see . . . a man who acts without real information." They find it "too upsetting" to acknowledge that the country's leadership "is in such hands." In April, Lewis' charge that press criticism is too muted could hardly be repeated...
...always represented a sort of everyman's World Series, will it be the same? Rodgers says it will. He thinks professionalism and commercialism merely "ensure that world-class competitors will be present," and should have no effect on the dreamers. This was put to a dreamer, Washington Post Columnist Colman McCarthy, who writes better than he runs, but has finished three Boston Marathons. He mulled it over for a long moment before answering: "So many great amateurs have triumphed at Boston-Johnny Keliey, Clarence H. DeMar, Tarzan Brown-that it's hard to run there and not feel...
Former Nieman Fellow Anthony Lewis, a New York Times columnist, wrote earlier this year of Lyons. "In an age of image-making and exploitation, he stands for old-fashioned decency...