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...would still apply. In fact, for most candidates, there will be little choice. Under the new rules, it is hard enough to raise a million dollars, $1,000 at a time, let alone $20 million. President Gerald Ford and Senator Henry Jackson announced that they would conform to the spending levels established originally by the act. Ford said that he would ask the Attorney General about "what steps, if any, should be taken to ensure that our elections remain free from any abuse [caused by lifting spending ceilings...
...heap of bodies at Mylai, in the naked girl running down a road crying as napalm burned through her skin. But, as Fussell says, our culture began to learn how to accept this long ago through a perception that is ironic, accepting an experience that will never conform to our moral values. And we began to learn this ironic form of understanding during World...
Image of Horror. The movie is vastly ambitious, but it is also jaunty and diverting. There is time for an affection ate send-up of Bertolucci: Giannini's en trance into a Neapolitan music hall, stupidly splendid with a cigarette holder and snap-brim hat, recalls The Conform ist. There are some good visual puns...
Born the half-sister of the sixth Duke of Portland, Ottoline spent most of her adult life playing the role of patroness of the arts. Her mother and brothers tried hard when she was young to force her to conform to the conventional role of an upper-class woman of Edwardian England, to become the kind of vapid woman that, as Ottoline said later, "gossiped all the morning, then drove out to lunch with the shooters in tweeds, had tea in pink tea-gowns from Paris, and dined in still more gorgeous brocades and velvets." Throughout her life, Lady Morrell...
...question is not, as William Stringfellow is quoted as saying, whether the Church can change, but rather if it will conform to secular society. The faith and practice of the Church are radically opposed to the tenor of the world. This applies to sexuality, and while the world might change, the Church must stay faithful to its heritage. The issue is not simply the ordination of women, but the compromise of the church to the world. This is seen in the willingness of these women and their allies to take the Church into the civil courts. It is very strange...