Word: indirectness
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...unity which is beyond race, talk of the end of opression. Marley talked little, sang much. Marley holds his hand to his head when he sings; he occasionally points to the friend or the opressor he sees in his mind. He is conscious of the crowd in an indirect way, his music and not his eyes communicate with them...
Rogers' victory is an example of organized grass-roots resistance to liberal trends in current religious thought and behavior. Conservatives campaigned in 15 states to draw the inerrancy voters to Houston. Rogers will enjoy wide influence and has indirect power over the appointment of seminary board members. He is already on record as being interested in the idea of investigating the seminaries and what they teach...
...same time, private companies were paying as much as 90% of their profits in direct and indirect taxes. A bloated civil service, 420,000 strong, was required for an island population of 14.5 million. Recalls Rajah Maharaja, a leading businessman: "Many civil servants indulged in vindictive interference...
...around the U.S. were demanding that their colleges sell all stock in South Africa-related industry. Their charge: the $1.75 billion (17% of South Africa's foreign capital) invested by 350 U.S. companies in the apartheid nation and the actual presence of Americans doing business there amount to indirect support of racism...
...moral education it imparts to students." If what he says is true, then the President's real message to the students of Harvard is that small acts of daring are, at times like this, futile. When he tells us that we are "naive" and "must all be linked in indirect and innumerable ways to the wrongs of the world--through the goods we buy, the taxes we pay, the services we use, the investments we make," he is teaching us to have what Lawrence Goodwyn, professor of history at Duke, called "grace in the face of corruption." Bok has told...