Word: hards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...financial maelstrom hits big and small, the prosperous and the striving, without discrimination. Mighty IBM, a seemingly surefire Boston real estate project, and the gold futures market were all sent reeling in last week's crunch. Even the Wall Street Journal had a hard time putting it all together...
...Caribbean and elsewhere, claimed Castro last week, "we are being very discreet and trying hard not to embarrass Carter." He made the statement the night before he left New York, at an informal dinner for heads of U.S. news organizations, including Time Inc. Castro claimed that he once talked Panama's Omar Torrijos out of seizing the Canal when negotiations with the U.S. were stalled; that he is eager to begin pulling his troops out of Africa as soon as the situation in Namibia and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia is settled; and that Zbigniew Brzezinski is personally to blame...
...Philadelphia and Chicago, John Paul came down hard on the conservative side of issues that divide the American church: there should be, he said, no artificial birth control, no married priests, no women priests, no acceptance of divorce or of sex outside marriage, including homosexuality. At the Chicago meeting with the U.S. church hierarchy, he praised American bishops for their doctrinal unity with the papacy. But their unity was anything but total. Grumbled one bishop: "He was harkening back to an orthodoxy that I thought we had passed by years ago." Said another: "I almost expected the bell to ring...
...revealed very specific teachings, known collectively as "the deposit of faith," and that no Pope is in a position to change them. But what will be the results if no change occurs? Liberals fear that despite the enormous regard in which multitudes hold this remarkable new Pope, his hard line will drive more Roman Catholics out of the church and discourage men and women from entering the priesthood and the religious orders. The competing theory, heard increasingly in the Vatican, is that churches that cater to contemporary notions in order to maintain church membership do not prosper. The decline...
Brooks' comedy depends on individuals, not situations, and in most shows a viewer would be hard put to retell the plot. Ted Baxter's cheapness on The MTM Show is as funny to this generation as Jack Benny's was 30 years ago, and Lou Grant's scowls are as familiar now as Groucho's raised eyebrows were back then. "Character is what fascinates me," says Brooks. "I love populated things. The great thing about literature is that it tells you that you are not alone...