Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always seemed curious to me that so many people would prefer to share their churches and neighborhoods with gangland killers rather than homosexuals. After all, isn't love, whether for the same sex or the opposite sex, a better example for our children than the current national fascination with Mafia heroes...
...intellectual dissent, equated with disloyalty. The Jewish question festers, though a clamp on immigration to Israel that was in force when I left two years ago has since been eased. Some Jews, like the outstanding poet, Joseph Brodsky, are being pressured by officials to go to Israel, although they prefer to remain in Russia. Still, there are glimmerings. The controversial film Andrei Rublyov, based on the life of the 15th century monk who founded a new school of icon painting, was recently released after a six-year...
...Santiago activists speaking for their Christian brethren throughout Latin America? In terms of numbers, radical Latin American clerics are a small minority everywhere. But in some countries, at least, they form a vocal, dedicated cadre determined to influence the masses through conscientizacion-"consciousness raising"-or as some now prefer, politizacion. Chile's radical priests' organization, which is led by Jesuit Gonzalo Arroyo, the congress organizer, is called the Group of 80-in a nation that has 2,500 priests. An Argentine priests' group, the Third World Movement, claims 400 members out of a clergy numbering...
...huge new industrial complex through which they proudly escorted Castro last week, the steel plant is Russian, the cast-iron plant French, the pipe plant West German, and the hot rolling mill Italian. "We take the best of each," says an official. "Some may call us opportunistic. We prefer the word pragmatic...
...assistance. Even worse are its vignettes of House life, which sound as if they are describing a string of Holiday Inns. Take Eliot House, for example: "Along with a fine physical setup--rooms, courtyard, grill, etc.--there seems to be a new spirit among the residents." Or perhaps you prefer North House: "North House may well be the most together house in the university." So visit. Harvard, where tired students unwind...