Word: compliants
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...birth of Dante (see BOOKS) this spring, the girls donned costumes and reconstructed the campus according to the Divine Comedy-Hell was the college dump, Heaven a hilltop garden. Men at nearby colleges are prone to gossip about Bennington students as "rather bohemian girls of a sexually compliant nature," which sometimes leads the girls to answer requests for dates with an icy "I have a paper...
...Manchester Guardian's able, longtime (1946-63) Bonn correspondent, broadly interprets the opposition as encompassing not only Germans who plotted against Hitler but also those who tried "to help his victims, or just to defend their beliefs." While the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches were both ingloriously compliant, many individual churchmen in particular were outspoken foes of the regime. Clemens Cardinal von Galen of Miinster denounced the Nazis' euthanasia program from the pulpit, halting, at least for a time, the mass murder of feeble-minded and spastic children. After calling upon his congregation to pray for the Jews...
...when a huffy papal legate excommunicated the Patriarch of Con stantinople-cut Orthodoxy off from the intellectual revolution that took place in Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the last 46 years, Communism has turned the largest Orthodox churches-of Russia and the Balkan countries-into compliant captives of a totalitarian regime...
...does not want to damage the economies of nations that the U.S. is trying to prop up. When President Kennedy himself proposed an 8?-per-lb. tariff increase on imported cottons to win cotton-state support for his Trade Expansion Act, he was turned down by the usually compliant U.S. Tariff Commission. Since then, the Administration has vaguely proposed to subsidize domestic cotton buyers to the tune of 5? per lb., which would cost the taxpayers another $225 million or so a year. Partly because domestic textile men are holding out for a still higher subsidy, that idea...
...Kennedy is really determined to Stalinize West Europe, he may be able to find a few compliant "little four" statesmen to help him. But he risks defeating his own purpose with strong-arm tactics, and there is already evidence that a Belgian-Italian-German backfire has started to build...