Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last December a curious nine-page letter landed in the mailboxes of Christian Science practitioners and local church leaders. It warned that the faith's Boston headquarters was rife with "gross mismanagement, inexperience and lack of Christian ethics." Unless "the Field" demanded a housecleaning, the letter said, the religion could virtually disappear within a decade...
...capitalist, has been on this island long enough to see that the facile distinctions between blacks and whites and easy judgments about imperialism and shamytowns are false ones. When you use such terms, he cautions a white arrival, you begin to think only in "comic strips," without saying anything. Gross appearances are much too deceiving, he suggests, as the truth lies in the welter of relations and facts belied by appearances...
...last week thought that Nixon had helped U.S. interests in making it. There was widespread chagrin that the ex-President chose Peking as the place to get back into the headlines. The feeling, even among former conservative Nixon supporters, was that the ex-President had been guilty of a gross impropriety in going to China in the first place, and that he had compounded the offense by trying to usurp the foreign policy role reserved for the President and the Secretary of State...
Howe, who spoke on "The Jewish writer and the American tradition," traced the evolution of Jewish authors from their expression of alienation through "gross sentimentality and self-comforting softness" to their eventual creation of an articulate style characterized by a mixture of the "sardonic and the sentimental...
...Gross Cartoon. In short, the movie is bad in all the conventional ways...