Word: novak
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...MICHAEL NOVAK 321 pages. Macmillan...
...Michael Novak's Slovak grandparents, oppressed by the Austro-Hungarian empire, emigrated to the United States for the classic reasons. One grandfather became a Pennsylvania farmer. One grandmother, widowed, hired out as housekeeper and laundress. Novak's parents mobiled upward, from Johnstown's Slovak ghetto to "the WASP suburb on the hill." Then Michael went the rest of the way. He is a sober-profiled Catholic professor of philosophy and religion, currently at the State University of New York. But with a book in one hand (perhaps even his own A Theology for Radical Politics...
Cornell's defense has been playing well, but the two alternating goalies are weak. Jim Novak has allowed 22 goals and made 54 saves in seven games, while the other netminder, Bob Cali, has allowed 18 scores and stopped 24 shots in five matches...
...candidates Muskie was hurt the most by a bad press in both the campaign funding issue and the crying - on - the - steps - of - the Manchester-Union-Leader-Episode which was blown up to natural magnitude by such syndicate writers as Evans and Novak. He was especially careful to be nice to certain influential reporters. "Hi, what are you doing here? I thought you just stayed in your ivory tower in Boston," Muskie said smiling warmly to a prominent Globe columnist...
Muskie has been under a great deal of pressure since the beginning of his campaign from the centrist faction, which includes the Scammons and columnists like Evans and Novak. They insist that Muskie must avoid the "lemming left" in order to win in November. Consequently, when Muskie endorsed the National Peace Action Coalition's April 24 March on Washington. Evans and Novak criticized him for supporting a demonstration sponsored by "a Trotskyite front." They even criticized him for speaking at a liberal rally in Providence. R.I. organized by Allard Lowenstein...