Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Critics condemn the working paper as a retreat to old-fashioned churchly paternalism and complain that it plays down Latin America's social and economic ills. In one section, for instance, the poor are promised the consolations of faith, which will allow them "to live in fortitude and enjoy that happiness of the kingdom of which no human sorrow can deprive them." Another section, clearly aimed at clerical activists, declares that "priests, monks and nuns should not under normal circumstances participate in political struggle." The theme of the Puebla conference is how to evangelize an increasingly urbanized society...
Twist 1: it turns out that nuclear power right now is neither safe, cheap nor reliable. Twist 2: we are asked to put our fears aside and have faith in the nuclear industry because of its long history, though we aren't to expect too much from it because it's really too young to have any of the real answers. Twist 3: we are told that environmentalists want us living in the Stone Age, but we don't have the technology for that...
...have faith in the process, in what we are trying to do," he said. "I ask you to believe that we can surmount problems of implementation...
...Americans are not being signed on as token gestures to geography; they have learned to play the game. The Dallas Tornado and the Colorado Caribous have five American starters. Says Dallas Coach Al Miller, one of two U.S. head coaches in the N.A.S.L.: "I have faith in the Americans. I think you can win with them. We have Americans sitting on the bench who could play on most clubs...
...idealism inherent in student activism is a welcome contradiction to President Carter's current lack of faith in the ability of the U.S. government to bring about reform, I.F. Stone, Atherton lecturer and a well-known American journalist, told a group of about 150 people in Winthrop House last night...