Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some bishops were unhappy with Paul's criticisms of their pet theological theses. While the Pontiff conceded that "human liberation has been rightly emphasized," for example, he cautioned that "the totality of salvation is not to be confused with one or another aspect of liberation. The Good News must preserve all of its own originality: that of a God who saves us from sin and death and brings us to divine life. Hence human advancement [and] social progress [are] not to be excessively emphasized on the temporal level to the detriment of the announcement of the Good News...
...even as a child would pet...
...cent of migratory farm laborers did only farm wage work and earned $1654 in 1972. Those who also did non-farm work made $2798 a year, a far cry from the figures claimed by some (the lowest being $7000 per year). Growers often have their pet farm workers testify to fanciful salaries...
...most desperate effort of modern times to extend a family is that of Joy and George Adamson, who have this pet lioness-as well as an ark's worth of other African fauna-instead of children running around their game preserve in Kenya. The world could well have been spared yet another rendering of the Born Free legend, but it must be admitted that NBC'S new series (Monday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) at least avoids the queasier questions raised by Mrs. Adamson's elaborate efforts at surrogate motherhood. Elsa, the Adamsons' lioness, has turned into...
...doubt there have been some art critics who wished, in self-indulgent moments, that art history were neater than it is, that the work fitted the pet theory more smoothly. The sight of a critic physically altering an artist's work to conform to his own ideas about it is, mercifully, almost unknown. But it happened recently-to David Smith, who died in 1965 and is probably the greatest sculptor in U.S. history. Readers of this month's Art in America were electrified to learn from an article by Art Historian Rosalind Krauss that since Smith...