Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good many Viet Nam experts question whether a cease-fire ought to be the first step in reducing hostilities since, like the oft-violated Jet truces, it would provide no assurance against local violence or massive Communist resupply and buildup in contested areas. Some allied military men nonetheless favor the idea, arguing that it would provide an ideal opportunity for the forces freed from combat to root out Viet Cong political agents in rural areas. The Viet Cong, of course, might see exactly the same opportunity to clean out government representatives...
...much greater extent than the alternatives. At this juncture, it is difficult to imagine the Thieu government or the Communists agreeing to work together in a larger political process. One of the two might do so if it felt that the odds of settlement were clearly tilted in its favor-and the other might accept such an outcome if it clearly felt that it had lost the war. Part of the difficulty of the Viet Nam war is that, though it may be a war neither side can win, it remains a conflict that each side is convinced...
...long and thoughtful introduction, the encyclical cites the many reasons put forward by theologians, Catholic and Protestant alike, in favor of birth control: the population explosion, the economic difficulties involved in raising a large family, new insights into the psychological nature of sexual experience. In the end, though, the Pope rejects them all: "It is not licit, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil so that good may follow therefrom, even when the intention is to safeguard or promote individual, family or social well-being." Paul also cites what he considers the dangers that will stem from widespread...
...church's most articulate moral theologians-sometimes with the approving support of their bishops-have publicly argued that couples can licitly practice birth control for reasons of health or economic hardship. The Pope's own commission on the subject in 1966 voted 70 to 14 in favor of relaxing the church's stand on contraception. More significantly, millions of married Catholics, either on their own initiative or with the blessing of their confessors, have decided that birth control is a matter for their own consciences alone...
...this production, the effort and matter-of-factness instilled in the love scenes lend to even-out the wildly different qualities tossed-about in the play (and Schmidt's notes concede this diffusion) in favor of repetitious and uninteresting mannerism. About the middle of the second act we begin to feel we've seen it all before in the first act. Troilus washing his face recalls the Trojan's first act entrance, actors who project physical characteristics early in the play keep projecting them and, as in the Loeb's Balcony, everyone is always clutching at one another...