Word: maverickly
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Following Orders. Four months ago, an administrative decision from Rome signaled the end of the parish's freewheeling days: the Holy See had carved a new diocese of Arlington out of the remote Richmond diocese, whose bishop, Walter Sullivan, had shown no interest in taming the maverick parish...
...taken such admirable stances for half a century it is hard to be rough with him. A biography might have established the distance needed between the man and his actions to evaluate his philosophical and ideological stances. Yet one does wonder whether such a work on such an untenured maverick would sell with the committees that parcel out tenure to the sort of people who would write such a book. Despite such problems of point of view, Lamont emerges as "warm and agreeable" as the Humanism he dotes upon. And most of all, he comes clean...
RHODE ISLAND. The candidate who accomplished the most with the least amount of help undoubtedly was an ingenuous and indefatigable maverick named Edward P. Beard, 34, who upset Democratic Congressman Robert Tiernan. The party's man and a nine-year congressional veteran, Tiernan was so confident that he did not even bother to campaign until the last two weeks...
...will have two new operatives. On ABC, ex-Cop Harry O (played by former Fugitive David Janssen) will work out of a shack on the beach. In NBC'S The Rockford Files, James Garner will become pretty much of a contemporary embodiment of his old sharp-talking Maverick self...
...sense of "excitement and peace" that followed the resignation. Why had he kept his silence during Nixon's last days? Said McLaughlin: "I did not want to say anything by way of a public defense that might inhibit him from recognizing that he should resign." There the maverick Jesuit was in agreement with Rome. Writing on Nixon's demise in L 'Osservatore della Domenica last week, Vatican Press Officer Federico Alessandrini concluded that the Watergate case had raised "a constitutional issue that left no choice open to any U.S. political parties, not even to the Republicans...