Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often these past few years, the voices have not been heard from the middle-of-the-road majority of the hierarchy, either in the U.S. or abroad. They have come from loyal independents like Brazil's Dom Helder Câmara, battling for his nation's poor, or Belgium's Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, pleading for a greater role in the church for bishops, priests and laymen as well. Often they have come from outside the hierarchy altogether: from Daniel and Philip Berrigan, languishing in jail for the cause of peace; from the irrepressible Hans...
...freshman have scored a touchdown in the opening plays of the game. "We like to score in the first series of the game if we can. We did against Tufts and Holy Cross. Against Dartmouth, we had a receiver in scoring position but the pass was overthrown," offensive coach Loyal Park said...
Among dissident Soviet intellectuals, the man who best embodies the spirit of loyal opposition to the Kremlin is Roy Medvedev, 46, an educator-turned-historian and a dedicated Marxist-Leninist. Last month a London publisher brought out a Russian-language edition of Who Is Mad? (to be published in the U.S. on Dec. 1 by Alfred A. Knopf under the title A Question of Madness), co-authored by Roy and his twin brother Zhores. a prominent biologist. It describes Zhores' 19-day confinement in a madhouse for his political behavior, and Roy's ultimately successful efforts...
...from changes at the networks. The small affiliate stations still have the right to refuse what they find disagreeable. This tail-wagging-the-dog situation curbs most attempts at quality or daring. Nor does Public Broadcasting offer a sanguine alternative. The networks tolerate it as Their Majesty's Loyal Opposition-as long as it retains its obsequious manner. Should it ever capture more than a snippet of the vast audience, broadcast lobbyists in Washington would reduce its generous funding to a trickle. Given this bland, canned state of TV, does the audience have any hope at all for fast...
McCarthy's most loyal follower on campus is Martin Peretz, acting head of the Committee on Social Studies, and a key 1968 McCarthy financial supporter and political confidant. Peretz is unhappy with the announced and unannounced Democratic candidates because none have proposed a real alternative to Nixon's economic game plan. "The President has seized the initiative on both foreign and domestic policy." Peretz contends. "The Democrats passed the executive wage-price power largely because they didn't feel Nixon would use it. They wanted it as a stick to beat him with. But now there is no alternative economic...