Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confession means that more and more encounters between priest and penitent are taking place outside of church. At numerous Catholic colleges, chaplains will hear confessions in their own rooms, or even while walking on campus. Many priests no longer insist that penitents recite a detailed account of their sins, prefer freeform discussions about their wrongdoing. Occasionally, devout Catholic husbands and wives will approach a priest together for a joint examination of their spiritual failings, prior to individual, private confessions...
...Thus the Marines feel that they have already stood and taken practically the hardest punch that North Viet Nam can throw at them until the monsoon ends next April. All the same, military men express considerable doubt about the concept of static defense embodied in Con Thien. Some would prefer to see the Marines make more forays to spike any Communist guns below the North Viet Nam border-as the Israelis did with the Syrian artillery atop the Golan Heights. U.S. military doctrine holds that a force assumes a defensive position only when it is not strong enough to take...
...Park is a misshapen variation on themes in green and grime. It is full of posts and bad seats. The left field wall, built high to convert cheap home runs into cheap doubles, belongs in a pinball game. But, given a choice between the Astrodome and Fenway, one would prefer the latter. On a summer afternoon the park makes delightful patterns of gloomy caverns and sunlit places. It suffers no totalitarian pastel plastic, no carnival scoreboard. It is true to the strange spirit of the city...
...avoid this situation, the White House and Pentagon would prefer to reverse the order of call to 19-year olds first; but to make this process fair, the Pentagon believes there must be a lottery--not an adaptation of the current "oldest first" procedure to a system of monthly draft calls of men between 19 and 20. The Pentagon believes that such a system would be administratively cumbersome and potentially unfair because monthly quotas vary greatly and draft calls might bunch toward a particular spot in the month (thus favoring men with birthdays immediately before the draft calls). Unfortunately...
Alaska a novel. Beyond that, they prefer to pass all judgments on to the readers. Says the jacket blurb: "There will be some who say Why Are We in Vietnam? is the first classic Norman Mailer has written. Others are sure to suggest it is the most foul-mouthed book to come along since publishers were pups...