Word: fidelis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Separatist Saints. The Mayflower company was, to begin with, no homogenous assembly of pious churchmen, but a mixed bag of cantankerous "saints and strangers"-angry religious rebels and ungodly adventurers who took unseemly pleasure in hurling invective at one another. The "saints" were bona fide revolutionaries-reformers within a Reformation. The Anglican Church under the Stuarts, with its emphasis on bishops and mandated ritual, was for them hardly more pure or godly than the "whore of Rome," as they called the Roman Catholic Church. The Bible should be the only authority, the reformers felt. Some also believed that each congregation...
...Harvard's lettuce has been coming from farm sources having contracts with labor organizations. Our information concerning the controversy gives us no basis for judging how far the contracts are bona fide, how far the dispute is jurisdictional (as many allege), what effect the reported UFW Teamsters settlement should have, etc.," Wiggins said...
Emerging standards for women's rights are likely to leave some jobs in which employers can insist on sex as a bona fide occupational qualification. Though telephone companies have been obliged to hire male operators and bars to take on female bartenders, the EEOC has ruled that actresses can still monopolize female roles-and presumably, jobs as topless dancers. Eventually, says University of New Mexico Law Professor Leo Kanowitz, the courts may have to decide such issues as whether, if women have equal rights, they also have equal liability to be drafted...
...long case, the E-meter was found guilty in 1967. But in Feb. 1969 a Court of Appeals reversed the conviction, ruling that the E-meter was an integral part of the cult's religious practices. On the basis of that decision, Scientology has established itself as a bona-fide religion. However, advertisements for the E-meter now include a note in fine print saying, "The E-meter is not intended or effective for the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of any disease." Yet Hubbard's writings still manage to imply miracle cures: "You use Dianetics much the way you would...
Dormann also began bumping into bona fide collectors, who were alarmed at his lack of expertise. A leading Lincoln scholar, Ralph Newman, who is a consultant to the Library of Congress, intervened at a time when the Johnson Administration was considering cooperating with Dormann. Newman warned the White House that Dormann "knew nothing whatsoever about the nature of the project he was attempting," and seemed to be using "our greatest office and name as a public relations device." As word of Newman's advice spread, Dormann discovered that neither Government officials nor university scholars would help him collect papers...