Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sternly pastoral addresses deploring divorce to a group of U.S. bishops, and to the Roman clergy insisting on the need for "the great discipline of the church." In calling for prayer for the Camp David summit, he stated that God "is our Father; even more, God is our Mother." Attacking Marxist-hued "liberation theology," he said: "It is mistaken to state that political, economic and social liberation coincides with salvation in Jesus Christ, that ubi Lenin, ibi Jerusalem [where Lenin is, there also is Jerusalem...
...place alongside Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou, John Wayne in True Grit and Jason Robards in The Ballad of Cable Hogue. A good-hearted rogue with slovenly personal habits, Moon is the essence of frontier vulgarity. He gobbles meals in a single bite, guzzles booze as if it were mother's milk and addresses women with a courtliness so exaggerated that it comes out obscene. Nicholson's repertoire of dumb grins and crazed laughs is as amusing as ever, but what makes the characterization take off is his monomaniacal concentration. Nicholson understands that ridiculous characters are hilarious only...
...likely to greet the unsuspecting intruder as are delight and good fortune. Many are the helpful brownies who have transformed themselves into destructive boggarts when they have been offended or teased. Hence man has always placated faeries in general by calling them such names as "Good Neighbors" and "Mother's Blessings." When euphemism failed there were always such antifaerie ploys as displaying the Bible or a Crucifix and wearing one's clothing turned inside...
...School for Democratic Management: The same people who bring you Mother Jones magazine (which uncovered the Ford Pinto gas tank scandal), San Francisco-based, the first alternative business school, for people in worker-controlled, collective and cooperative enterprises...
...American delegation to the funeral included Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton (D-Mo.), Connecticut Gov. Ella Grasso, Mayor Edward Koch of New York, Rep. Michael Blouin (D-Iowa) and Lillian Carter, mother of President Carter...