Word: eyewash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While some Catholic progressives greeted the new rules as a step in the right direction, however small, outspoken Theologian Hans Kung (Infallible?, Why Priests?) of Germany's Tubingen University was less sanguine. Küng called the regulations "poorly applied cosmetics . . . eyewash for the growing choir of criticism from both clergy and laity." A case in point for Küng's skepticism is one of the Pope's recent episcopal choices, Bishop Johannes Gijsen of the Dutch diocese of Roermond, who was selected over the nominees of the diocesan chapter. Three days after the Vatican announced...
...generation, and one of the most acclaimed. As a matter of American business course, he began to run for Mailer's cultural presidency. The search for the drama of willful men, the sensitivity to dialogue and detail that distinctively marked his treatment of strained human relationships, disappeared in glamorous eyewash: society seemed to be pilloried only for profit. What emerged unscathed from Jones' commercialization were his least savory qualities. It soon became apparent that Jones had written Warden into From Here to Eternity not so much as an indication that even a tough Top Sergeant could get screwed...