Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wears his religion on his sleeve. That makes a lot of people uneasy." Said Michael Novak, a Catholic theologian and insightful analyst of U.S. politics: "It makes him come across as too pious, the good kid on the playground. There's no sex appeal in that." Wrote Columnist Jim Miller in the Brooklyn church weekly the Tablet: "It is a whole cultural style and delivery that is foreign to people who are not rural, Southern fundamentalists. Ford is a known factor who does not threaten [Catholics] culturally...
...conductor is only as good as his orchestra, and Arledge has given himself an Olympian team of about 30 commentators-not too many woodwinds, please-complemented by a crew of 470, including directors, cameramen, technicians. Anchor man is Jim McKay, the Walter Cronkite of TV sports, who, in a tempo as neatly clipped as his hair, will provide an overview and summaries of events...
...Jim Katz, a spokesman for Massachusetts Fair Share, the group which sponsored the petition drive to put the question on the ballot, said yesterday that public opinion is probably in favor of the measure right now but that an expected industry-sponsored campaign in opposition to the flat rate might jeopardize its passage...
...Much Help. The bishop's elder son, James A. Pike Jr., committed suicide at 20, apparently in unhappiness at being a homosexual. Stringfellow and Towne state: "Jim Jr. did talk with his father on at least one occasion ... about his fears that he might be homosexual. Bishop Pike would later feel that he hadn't been much help." They report that Pike himself had had one "homosexual experience while he was a lonely law student at Yale ... He hadn't found the experience unpleasant or distasteful. 'It was just that nothing seemed to fit together...
...authors examine Pike's many efforts to talk with the dead (notably Jim Jr.) in seances, and suggest that the mediums he used probably learned in advance almost all of the obscure information that so impressed the bishop. They also note that since he and Diane agreed on the survival of the soul, they cut the words "till death do us part" from their marriage ceremony...