Word: revoltingly
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Mondale returned to the Senate in style-and shoes-in 1965, after he had been appointed to a vacant seat (later he was twice elected). Though a steadfast liberal, he rarely took unpopular stands or did anything in revolt. That caution showed up more clearly when Mondale became Vice President. He was regarded as politically smart, but he also became known for his nervousness. Carter and his Cabinet members got used to Mondale's early dire warnings of the political consequences of decisions. The Israelis and the Jewish lobby especially unsettled him. When Carter decided against providing the Turks...
...among healthy people, as well as those clergymen who oppose suicide for any reason at all. The worst offender is France's Suicide: Operating Instructions, by Claude Guillon and Yves Le Bonniec, a pair of anarchists who, with ineffable Gallic logic, have equated the act of suicide with revolt against the established order. Their book, which explains how to forge doctors' prescriptions for lethal drugs, has attracted more than 100,000 French readers and has provoked denunciations by scores of physicians and public health professionals, including France's Minister of Health. Most distressed have been the volunteers...
...leadership of its first President, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana gained independence from Britain in 1957. But poor planning and extravagant government spending soon undermined the economy, while incompetent officials and pervasive corruption eroded Nkrumah's popular support. In 1966 he was overthrown in a widely popular military coup. That revolt set the pattern for the future; in the succeeding 17 years Ghana has endured five such coups...
More metaphor than mythology, the Goddess is vital to Graves' poetry and much more. "The political and social confusion of the last 3,000 years," he once told a visitor, "has been entirely due to man's revolt against woman as a priestess of the natural magic, and his defeat of wisdom by the use of intellect...
...Right agenda. Nonetheless, the New Right leadership last week saw no need to compromise. The Moral Majority's Ron Godwin vowed renewed efforts for school prayer and against abortion. And Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie, searching for new motivating issues, called for an anti-elitist "new populist revolt." At a somber New Right election-night party, Viguerie declared, "If we win or lose, it's not our doing. God's will is going to be done. He's got His plan." Last week, at least, God's plan seemed to be a moderate one. -By Jane...