Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goldwater said he finds the New Right's righteousness especially distasteful, even though he admits he shares many of their moral views. "The uncompromising position of these groups is a divisive element that could tear apart the very spirit of our representative system. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of conservatism." Said Goldwater: "I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want...
Labor unions receive sympathetic treatment in the encyclical. John Paul believes unions are an "indispensable element" for defending the rights of working people. He endorses strikes but does warn that they are an extreme means and "must not be abused, especially for political purposes." Indeed, unions should not "play politics." This is a message that may fall on deaf ears in many Western European and Third World nations, where unions have long been politicized...
...them. While many technological breakthroughs have resulted from purely theoretical research, corporations tend to be more interested in encouraging short-term solutions to specific problems or in developing products. Concedes Wilbert Ferguson, a Westinghouse engineering director, discussing his firm's arrangement with Carnegie-Mellon: "There may be an element of support for academic research, but we really are trying to get as much...
...gentle strength of Ian Charleson as Liddell. A word of praise, too, goes to a supporting cast that includes Sir John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a pair of congealed Cambridge dons, Nigel Davenport and Patrick Magee as Olympic committeemen respectively too smooth and too Blimpish. Like every element in this picture, the actors look right; they seem to emerge from the past, instead of being pasted on to it, as so many characters in historical movies seem...
...turned to turmoil as the city changed--Sullivan still shakes his head when he recalls the late 60s and early 70s. "Those were really bad times. Conditions were really out of control," he says. "We had every one of the Chicago 7 living in Cambridge, and that kind of element antagonizes other people, and pretty soon things are really wild," he says. Sullivan was serving as mayor--largely an honorary position, except in crises--in 1969, when student demonstrators broke into Harvard's University Hall to protest the school's involvement in the Vietnam War. The students had broken...