Word: public
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yankees in Fenway Park. The present President, Jimmy Carter, was invited, but ex-Presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon were not. That was the decision of the Kennedy sisters-Eunice Shriver, Patricia Lawford and Jean Smith; they outvoted Brother Ted, who did not favor the public snub...
...must balance independence with responsibility to the magisterium (the church's teaching office) in unity with the papacy. "It is the right of the faithful not to be troubled by theories and hypotheses that they are not expert in judging or that are easily simplified or manipulated by public opinion...
...couple and the family, not "the direct fecundity of each and every particular act," the report concluded. But in 1968 Paul's encyclical Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life) totally rejected this theory. It declared all "artificial" methods of birth control unacceptable, thus touching off a sustained campaign of public dissent by theologians and wide disobedience among the laity, especially in the U.S., that has few parallels in modem Catholic history...
Mailer has tested this magic on the Viet Nam War, American presidential politics, the women's movement, the moon program. He tries it now upon another American public event that possessed, even before he wrote about it, a certain Mailerian quality: the execution, early in 1977, of Gary Gilmore, 36, a Utah murderer who refused to appeal his conviction and death sentence and demanded that the state kill him. Utah obliged, but only after a ritual that turned Gilmore into a grotesque celebrity. Shortly before the prisoner was seated in front of a dirty mattress to face the firing...
DIED. Jaya Prakash Narayan, 76, Indian independence fighter who for 50 years wielded great political and moral influence in his country, though he never held public office; of heart disease; in Patna, India. Born in a small village, Narayan studied in the U.S. for seven years, supporting himself as a fruit picker while, he later said, drinking "deep at the fountain of Marxism." On returning to India in 1929, he joined Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in the struggle to liberate India from British colonial rule and was repeatedly jailed as an agitator. After independence in 1947, Narayan was heir...