Word: piousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sermonizing before the Evangelicals is a dangerous mix of electioneering hooey and religious claptrap. As Sidey makes clear in his story, the U.S. is a pluralistic nation whose impressive strength derives from its being an open marketplace for ideas and opinions. The country does not need to hear pious bray and howl from the occupant in the White House. It needs to have that marketplace responsibly guarded...
Some passages are redundant or weightless, like the disjointed, if heartfelt, letter from a Russian orthodox priest who vaguely knew Sakharov, which dissolves into a pious "holy meditation." And some sections seem superfluous, particularly the overly technical descriptions of Sakharov's physics research. But the overwhelming balance of the book is valuable and fascinating, both for the personal glimpses of Sakharov and for the astute and seemingly fearless social criticism Sakharov and the other dissident contributors present...
Despite its pious homilies on the dangers of protectionism, the U.S. is one of the offenders. The Reagan Administration has forced Japan to accept a "voluntary" three-year quota on car exports and has limited steel imports from Western Europe. Some members of Congress, encouraged by organized labor, hope to go even further. A bill requiring a large percentage of American-made parts in imported cars has 220 co-sponsors in the House and the endorsement of Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy and John Glenn...
When the Rev. Emmanuel Milingo was named Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lusaka in 1969, his qualifications seemed considerable: he was energetic, pious, modest, well educated and possessed of a popular touch. Milingo has not exactly lived up to the Vatican's hopes. Since April, he has been sequestered at a monastery in Rome for a year of "rest and reflection," as well as psychiatric observation. Milingo's detention has angered many Zambian Catholics, who held two large rallies in Kabwe last week demanding that the Vatican "release" their archbishop by Nov. 4. Some are even threatening schism...
...superlative nonsense. In the university town of Salamanca, where Sancho once studied with the philosopher Unamuno, they wander into a Spanish house of prostitution. The unsuspecting Quixote comments, "What a large staff of charming young women for so small a hotel." Ignorant of films, for example, he picks a pious-sounding title for his first viewing. X-rated grunts of A Maiden's Prayer, however, make him wonder: "They seemed to suffer such a lot. From the sounds they made." His more worldly companion advises, "They were pretending-this is acting, father-to have unbearable pleasure...