Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them was directed to the charge that people were now calling Khomeini a dictator. "It hurts me," the Ayatullah answered, "because it is unjust and inhuman to call me a dictator. On the other hand, I couldn't care less, because I know that wickedness is a part of human nature, and such wickedness comes from our enemies. Considering the road that we have chosen, a road that is opposed to the superpowers it is normal that the servants of foreign interests prick me with their poison and hurl all kinds of calumnies against me. . . Dictatorship is the greatest...
...most part, Khomeini fielded the questions with aplomb, calmly denying many of the charges raised in the West against his rule. He denied that leftists played a major role in the revolution "None of them fought or suffered. If anything, they took advantage of the people who fought and suffered." Khomeini also charged that the left had been created by the Americans "to launch slanders against us, to sabotage and destroy us." It was of no consequence, he said, that Iran would not be called an Islamic Democratic Republic, since the "word Islam does not need adjectives such as democratic...
...annual rate of 11.3%, vs. 9.7% in 1976. Barre has warned that the French face more, not less, belt tightening. Said he: "Next year will be very difficult. The choice is not between maintaining or increasing purchasing power, but between its maintenance and its amputation." Thanks in part to that kind of gloomy prognostication, Barre's approval rating has fallen even lower than Giscard...
...have been an easy man to know. He refused to discuss his work, except with like-minded people; since he was sure that there was nobody like him in the art world, not one firsthand remark about his methods or aims has survived. In fits of depression, he destroyed part of his output; much of what he did not burn has been lost, and about half of his surviving late work was altered by a "restorer" in the mid-1960s. In almost every way, Bruce wrote and stamped his own ticket to oblivion...
...expected this Pope to renounce traditions like celibacy and the all-male priesthood on the trip. But, as an activist on the women's issue noted, "we had hoped for a miracle -that he wouldn't say anything." The Pope chose to delve into these controversies, in part, because he was under heavy pressure from the majority of American bishops to lend his popularity and publicity to their attempt to back unpopular church teachings...