Word: proclaimer
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...were killed. Disturbances erupted elsewhere in Ankara as college and high school students went on a rampage, and Demirel reluctantly considered imposing martial law. The reason he hesitated was that his Justice Party has a narrow margin in Parliament (225 to 220), and its rejection of a proposal to proclaim martial law would be tantamount to a vote of no confidence. At week's end the fate of the airmen was still unknown...
...trial at Harrisburg will not be the Berrigans' philosophy, but the facts of the case and, ultimately, their integrity. Barring some monumental misunderstanding or misinterpretation, either the Berrigans or their accusers must be wrong. Their followers?and not only their followers?would like to believe the brothers. They proclaim their innocence; if their prophetic role is to endure, they had better be right...
...bars, the Miami and Amigo, have recently opened. Signboards in front proclaim that "American-style" food and music are offered inside. Within, the blaring juke-boxes, over-priced drinks, and aggressive bargirls familiar to habitues of American haunts in Saigon and Bangkok are very much in evidence. "Before the coup the girls solicited you in French," says one long-time Phnom Penh resident; "now they start off in English...
...generations, that philosophy was accepted by black Americans. Today Negro children proclaim, 'I'm black and I'm proud," and Negro adults send cards like the one that shows a little black girl exclaiming "It's your birthday! I'm just tickled black." Expressions of pride are a good thing when they are genuine, say black Psychiatrists Alvin Poussaint of Harvard and James Comer of Yale. But, they caution in the current Redbook, rote teaching of black-dignity slogans may foster not pride but self-hatred...
...about the only area of our culture in which angels survive at all. An archangel, Gabriel, told the Virgin Mary that she would bear the son of God; it was an angel (progenitor of a billion Christmas cards) who appeared to the shepherds in a field near Bethlehem to proclaim the birth of Christ. Or rather, it "came upon them; and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid...