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...legislation making London's takeover of Ulster official. Among those who opposed the legislation were the Unionist M.P.s. As a last-minute gesture to Ulster's Protestants, the bill carried an amendment pledging no permanent change in Northern Ireland's status without the consent of its majority...
...creativity and destroying it in the process. They are legion: stories of actors locked into wretched contracts, used physically and emotionally; stories of writers slaving over their pictures, only to have autocratic stars change the sweated and bled dialogue on whim, backed up by the studio's full consent; stories of directors's painstakingly crafted films cut and reassembled so as to be unrecognizable. A great cry of "Cheat!" hovers in the dusty...
...reminded the committee that the basic crisis in the priesthood is over authority. No longer is that authority oppressive, insisted Greeley, because no one pays enough attention for it to be oppressive. Rather, the problem is "a collapse of confidence, credibility and consensus." Greeley noted that "priests do not consent to the teaching of the official church on the necessity of celibacy, on birth control and on divorce." They will not "acknowledge that Humanae Vitae was a legitimate and appropriate use of authority at least as far as birth control goes, nor will they attempt to impose its requirements...
Isaacs referred to a paragraph in Thursday morning's issue of the Globe which attributed to Kilbridge a statement that "with the knowledge and consent of former President Nathan M. Pusey. (Kilbridge had) tried to 'wrest control' of the (Planning) Department from the three professors, who among them had held the chairmanship for 17 years, and to restore the authority of the Planning faculty as a whole...
...heavily in their areas; less concerned individuals would handle the problem differently where they lived. Of course, individuals would have to take the burden of moving if they disliked the system operating where they lived--but, as opposed to today's statist societies, alternative systems would rest on the consent of those living within them, making a real choice of life-styles and societies possible...