Word: hereticism
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His biggest risk comes at the end of the first act. One of the few things that excites Carlos sexually is seeing someone burned at the stake; his courtiers obligingly find a heretic. Carlos is aroused; from beneath his twenty-foot high royal robes emerges a golden phallus fully ten...
Stephen Stamas, 43, has proved to be something of a heretic since becoming public-affairs chief for the gargantuan Exxon Corp. in June 1973. Youngest of the company's 13 vice presidents, Stamas muses that oil companies might be able to manage quite well without an oil depletion allowance...
> Alphonse J. ("Al") Matt Jr., 42, is the personable, chain-smoking editor of the Wanderer (circ. 48,000), a journal that started as a German-language parish bulletin a century ago and has in recent decades become the pugnacious defender of orthodoxy. Matt admits that his paper is "roughhewn" and...
The police might have pressed kidnaping charges against Voll's abductors except for one fact: they included his mother and father, a junior high school principal in Farmington, Conn. The Lockwood disappearance involved his father, a stockbroker in Los Angeles, plus an uncle. The black man in both cases...
Sir / Re your story about Sociologist Andreski's charges [Sept. 25] that sociologists write more and more about less and less: I wish I'd said that-in print. I have said it often in class. It is to the credit of my professors that I was not...