Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...synod fathers did allow women, including Mother Teresa of Calcutta, to attend, but only as nonvoting "auditors." Bishop Malone sought to bring the women's message to his colleagues, but lack of interest among the majority of delegates from developing nations was a reminder of the great variety of opinion that now exists within world Catholicism...
...Warren Court era (1953-69) and remained a careful centrist who avoided sweeping principles and ideological stances; after a stroke; in Hanover, N.H. He balanced general support for civil rights with opposition to affirmativeaction programs, belief in a vigorous press with a dislike of pornography. In his most famous opinion, he said in 1964 that he could not define such hard-core material, "but I know it when...
...Risk comes at a politic time in the continuing debate over American involvement in Central America. It is an important film because it sheds new light on the sorely stretched "facts" that each week issue from the editorial pages of our leading newspapers. It undoes the welter of complacent opinion, spearheaded by conservative journalists like Shirley Christian and George F. Will, that finds fault with every aspect of the Sandinista regime and urges further U.S. funding of contra activities in the region. And because of several clever decisions by the filmmakers, Living at Risk should have a significant impact...
...simplistically denigrates and villifies American values and actions, it is proper and laudable. If it simplistically glorifies American values and institutions, then it is reprehensible and deserves intellectual castigation. How happy I would be to hear Harvard students (even once) denigrate Sydney Schanberg's intellectually childish and morally perverse opinions that he expressed so forcefully in The Killing Fields. His distorted presentation of the facts of the U.S.'s intervention in Cambodia to prevent a Khmer Rouge victory deserves far more castigation than anything contained in either Rambo or Rocky IV. Yet the clear-cut double standards of an influential...
President Reagan last night was both criticized as a manipulator of public opinion and hailed as a peacemaker in a discussion sponsored by a local anti-nuclear group...