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Formidable Edge. Fan mail for the boyish, neatly polished Brokaw is running at about the same volume, with so far not one word of disfavor. Because it has only been a year since he was plucked from Los Angeles' KNBC to compete with CBS's Dan Rather, Brokaw's success surprised network executives. "Many of us did not realize that he had such poise, wit and delightful humor," burbles Schulberg. Among those who matter-NBC Board Chairman Julian Goodman, President Herbert Schlosser, News President Richard Wald-Brokaw is also thought to have "more magnetism and impact" (read...
Sauvagnargues's unexpected move from the French embassy in Bonn to the Quai d'Orsay was in itself a mild slap at the Gaullist orthodoxy. A wartime supporter of De Gaulle's, Sauvagnargues earned the general's disfavor later on, when he publicly allowed that France might want to encourage the continuance of the Atlantic Alliance. He was promptly banished to a long career of postings abroad, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to West Germany...
...contemporary theology? Master the Summa Theologiae and the Summa Contra Gentiles." Even before the Second Vatican Council, some progressive Catholic theologians were abandoning the kind of worshipful Thomism Tracy describes. After the council had ushered in a new spirit of intellectual freedom in the 1960s, Thomas' fall into disfavor accelerated. His structured philosophy was criticized as too static, his rationality rejected for lacking the insights of existentialism. This year, at one typical U.S. Catholic seminary-St. Joseph's in Yonkers, N.Y.-only one course specifically offers studies in the work of Thomas Aquinas...
...added, "In the service of one's prince, repeated scolding can lead only to loss of favor." And in Imperial China, favor was with-drawn with a vengeance--China's greatest historian, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, was castrated for defending a general who had fallen into the disfavor of a Han emperor. Ssu's action had been morally correct, but he had violated another, more important Confucian precept--"First and foremost," The Master had said, "be faithful to your superiors." Confucians stood by parents, princes, and emperors, right or wrong...
...exonerated in 1963 and elected president of the National Assembly five years later. Smrkovsky, one of Liberal Czech leader Alexander Dubcek's key aides, publicly called for such reforms as freedom of speech, religion and press; after the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968, he fell into disfavor with party hard-liners once again and was forced into early retirement...