Word: inward
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Ordination tops the list of specific issues simply because "all major decision making is done by bishops," notes Ruth Fitzpatrick of Fairfax, Va., coordinator of the WOC. She sees grass-roots protest mushrooming. "We're watching the inward collapse of the whole patriarchal structure of the Catholic Church." Another radical, Sister Maureen Fielder of Catholics Speak Out in Mount Rainier, Md., reports that hundreds of groups of Catholics shun church-as-usual. "I know plenty of women who get together and celebrate the Eucharist together," she says...
Still, McDougall says, "the assumption" amongcivil rights workers at the College "was that itwas a good place...At that time, our criticism ofsociety never turned on Harvard. After I left, thecritical eye of the movement turned inward...
Just as Australians are looking inward for new avenues of self-expression, industrial life may be reinventing itself along more local and congenial lines. Unprecedented cooperation between business and unions, fostered by nine years of Labor Party government, has led to a sharp drop in industrial unrest and, more important, to dramatic changes in factory organization. When Joe Cummaudo started work in Ford's plastics plant in Melbourne in 1983, he recalls, workers and bosses ate in different canteens and management policy was "like handing out the strap back in school." Since the introduction in 1986 of an employee-involvement...
...three centuries, the Quebecois -- descendants of France's attempt to plant a North American colony -- maintained a society that was rural, Roman Catholic and inward-looking. But in the 1960s, as Quebecois moved into business and the professions, Quebecois separatists raised their sights. They now control two parties of their own -- the Parti Quebecois, which contests (and sometimes wins) Quebec provincial elections, and the newer Bloc Quebecois, which holds seats in the national Parliament. French Canadians are intelligent and entrepreneurial. When it comes to politics, they're blowhards, endlessly recounting their frustrations, many of them imaginary. Compared with other minorities...
Nixon's central thesis is that the collapse of the Soviet Union presents the U.S. both with an unparalleled chance to help shape a more stable and peaceful world and with a great danger of a lapse into chaos and turmoil if the nation misguidedly turns its attention totally inward. He offers quite detailed advice on what to do about specific areas of potential trouble, generally in a spirit of cold-blooded realism. Again and again he insists on the continued importance of military power. If the U.S. wants to retain economic and . political influence in the new Europe...