Word: opinionator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anita Bryant quoted from Corinthians I to add authority to her opinion concerning homosexuality. Had she read further in that same Epistle, she would have found the following: "Let your women keep silence in the churches...
...majority opinion, written by Justice Lewis Powell, held that there is nothing in the Social Security Act, which created the Medicaid program in 1965, that requires participating states to provide any specific medical treatment, including abortion...
Given such groping, appeals, recesses, opinion-writing time and hearings on remedies, experts believe the IBM case will easily eclipse the 15-year antitrust-litigation record set in the El Paso Natural Gas divestiture case that ended in 1972. "At best, it'll be 1985 before a change in the IBM market structure is finally ordered," says one Washington attorney, "and by that time, the markets will have changed dramatically, maybe making the restructuring irrelevant." For that reason alone, many computer-industry experts forecast another face-saving consent decree, to be negotiated by the Government -a solution that would...
...Trilling's essays invite such remarks. In this collection she offers her views on a variety of social events and movements over the last ten years; almost without exception her opinions are so unsubstantiated (except by more opinion) and presented so belligerently that the disagreeing reader is forced to spluttering defensiveness, to personal attack and outraged invective...
...seeks primarily to offer some moral guidance, even if her criteria seem totally at odds with everyday reality. Which explains, of course, her willingness to make moral judgments about anything in her essays without really explaining how she reaches her conclusions; she feels fully justified in offering unsubstantiated opinion...