Word: pious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson Forum articles of November 17, "Ted Koppel Blames the Victim," is typical of today's trendy, but misguided thought on the issue of Nicaragua. The writer takes at face value the pious assertions of the Nicaraguan foreign ministers, throws in a little international law, and comes out painting the U.S. as an unprovoked aggressor in Central America. International law is a worthwhile thing, and is useful when the parties involved share an accepted notion of the global balance of power. However, there are many powers who do not respect such a notion, and are thus revolutionary in their efforts...
...gingerly than might have been expected, perhaps because they did not want to revive the controversy over the personal finances of Geraldine Ferraro and her husband John Zaccaro. Mondale allowed that "there has been a tacky element to the Administration" but said that he did not want to appear "pious" because other Administrations, including Democratic ones, had also suffered because of the peccadilloes of their officials. He was likewise restrained about Vice President George Bush, who revealed last week that he had been forced by the IRS to pay $198,000 in back taxes. Mondale did protest that...
Before he turned to this semiautobiographical novel, Detrez published two fragmentary accounts of his pious Catholic boyhood and a pamphlet defending guerrilla warfare titled For the Liberation of Brazil. Out of this unpromising welter of religious and political rhetoric there has emerged the wholly unsuspected, a writer of genuine promise...
Like many Americans, Reagan has a religious sense that lacks much formal institutional grounding, but nonetheless seems earnest and powerful. Mondale, the pious and principled son of a Methodist pastor, has a temperamental aversion to wearing his faith on his sleeve-but he apparently feels his faith deeply and knows what he believes. What is at issue, or should be, is neither the sincerity nor the righteousness of the two men's beliefs. Rather, the point is their basic difference in outlook, reflected within the electorate, over the proper role of religion in the political realm. If conducted...
...Soviet Union has grown wider, those words have begun to echo loudly across the gap. The world last week still heard the shrill reverberations from President Reagan's unfortunate joke about bombing Russia. As the Soviets took full advantage of the incident with denunciations and pious indignation, the Reagan Administration weighed in with yet another affront: the message that it considers the Soviet subjugation of Eastern Europe to be far from permanent. Amid all this, the level of international anxiety was raised by persistent rumors that Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko was in poor health...