Word: regarded
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Sydney Freedberg does not understand the depth of the problem in regard to those who oppose ordination of these eleven women. We can all sympathize with their frustration, but that is not the issue. Nor is the problem the irrregularity of their ordination, since the Church will probably validate their orders next year. The real issue is theological and not sexist, as they allege. The article left the impression that the problem lies in ingrained institutional prejudice when this is not the case at all. There are sizable segments within the Church who oppose the full ordination of women...
Stark Reality. At the welcoming banquet in the Great Hall of the People, the atmosphere turned briefly ominous. Teng in his toast sternly warned the Americans against being roundheeled with the Soviets on detente, which the Chinese regard as naive and a self-defeating attempt to appease imperialist Moscow. Mystifying the Americans, Teng summed up Peking's world outlook with a Maoist aphorism: "Our basic view is, there is great disorder under heaven, and the situation is excellent." Less inscrutably, he added: "Rhetoric about detente cannot cover up the stark reality of the growing danger of war." Ford...
...American jingoists insist that their country has the best of everything, or used to, so do others glory in claiming it has the worst. Those Americans who accentuate the negative recognize no statute of limitations on American sinning. "Every American in each generation, it appears," writes Henry Fairlie, "must regard himself as responsible for all that his society has done, does, and will do." While no Englishman feels any personal responsibility for the slave trading practiced by his ancestors, Anti-American Americans demand that their fellow countrymen feel guilty permanently about slavery and other transgressions of the past. Anti-Americans...
...task of the CUHS is to ensure that research go on without harming its subjects. But Harvard psychologists disagree vehemently on just how much protection the CUHS should provide. Just as the University was reluctant to violate "academic freedom" by restraining Leary, so there remain professors who regard the CUHS as an intrusion and a potential violator of researchers' rights. Others in the department, however, feel that the Committee has not provided enough protection for subjects...
...afternoon, a time when undergraduates would be most likely to use them. This is presumably to avoid "inconveniencing" the varsity teams by forcing them to practice in the evening. I am sure that other casual athletes could come up with many more examples of these kinds of priorities with regard to use of facilities...