Word: samenesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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∙DEFENSE SPENDING. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, under heavy pressure to cut further the $77.6 billion defense budget that many consider a prime cause of inflation, jettisoned the Air Force's six-year-old space-exploration project known as MOL, for Manned Orbiting Laboratory. By dropping the program, the...
Irish religion is also a stubborn holdover. Post-Reformation England wasted several hundred years trying to bring her offshore island into ideological line, in the process hammering Catholicism deeper and deeper into the Irish system. From the victim's point of view, a cosmopolitan religion was an excellent way...
Much of this has to do with the image of sex and death, which presents hilarity on the one side and melancholia on the other. The confusion has been blamed squarely on the Catholic Church, but a country usually gets the religion that suits it. The Irish attitude to sex...
The Irish will probably go on cursing the clergy anyway, or defending them against curses, long after the occasion has passed. Anticlericalism is too good and old a sport to abandon entirely, and the most devout indulge in it the most gleefully. The Irish bishops ("the 26 Popes") have drawn...
Tiger draws certain analogies between male bonds and sexual attraction. To him, initiation into all-male groups like fraternities resembles courtship: neophytes are wooed and chosen with the same meticulous care as mates. Investiture into a masculine order-an army unit or the Masons-is like marriage, which explains in...