Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fully believe that the Episcopal Church needs women as ministers. Women have a deep-seated respect for religion and belief and faith in God in their daily lives, more so than some of these men who claim they preach the word...
Liberal Distaste. Perhaps the final irony is that many U.S. liberals and intellectuals, who used to preach détente and denounce cold warriors, now sharply question and even attack the current Nixon-Kissinger bargaining with the Soviets. For example, Political Scientist Hans J. Morgenthau recently decided that the Soviet Union is too far outside any "moral consensus" shared with the rest of the international community to be trusted to fulfill its commitments. In recent weeks the tough Jackson amendment that would deny the Soviet Union many U.S. trade advantages unless it changes its emigration policy won the endorsement...
...Nixon in November, and looks back on it now with dismay, it is encouraging to see some public demand for the resolution of Watergate." But a number of readers still thought the press was exaggerating. Said one: "A few Republicans spy on a few Democrats and you write and preach and fume about it as if it were the worst scandal in history...
...Ward Stevenson, a senior vice president of Hill & Knowlton Inc., public relations agency in Los Angeles: "Nixon made a bad mistake by surrounding himself with lawyers and admen. If they had been p.r. men, there would have been no Watergate coverup. We preach admitting mistakes, getting the facts out and the bad publicity behind us. I would encourage a voluntary appearance before the Senate committee, and regular press conferences...
Neither an especially gifted singer nor a talented actor, Alice Cooper nonetheless has become the darling of the pubescent set by such gruesome antics. His show represents an updated version of Saturday afternoon at the horror movies. Says Alice: "All we do is project fantasies. I don't preach. The only message is 'here I am and what are you going to do about me?' I'm sort of a spit in the face...