Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nature of the current struggle between Marxism and religion. Marx originally objected to religion in the belief that it encouraged men to ignore human suffering in the present in hopes of future spiritual salvation. He predicted that the forces of economic history would grind religion into oblivion. Then, somewhat perversely, his own theory became a secular faith. Before long it was actively contributing to human suffering, while encouraging men to endure the pain of the world against a future time when the state would wither away...
...European parliamentary election. The French and Italian parties are wracked by internal struggles that have halted or even reversed their vaunted process of "democratization." And both appear mired in a quandary about what to do next; the two big parties' troubles have left the smaller Spanish party somewhat isolated...
...nuclear bomb works. The magazine is now under federal injunction not to publish its report, an unprecedented case of prior restraint that is troubling to all editors. Overcoming their initial misgivings, the board of directors of the A.S.N.E. voted unanimously to support the Progressive's appeal. With somewhat less agonizing, the American Society of Magazine Editors last week announced that it too would back the appeal...
...control spontaneous combustion. Both church and state, though, have been working together somewhat touchily to avoid unruly demonstrations. In Warsaw, liquor sales were banned. The Pope will travel into recently created security sectors. Both church and state agreed that spectator tickets to papal events would be issued only to people living in that sector. Meanwhile, the Communist regime may end up paying the bulk of $65,000 to put up the new altar in Victory Square in Warsaw, $116,000 worth of portable toilets in Cracow, and $25,000 to pay for special hats worn by 40,000 volunteer Catholic...
Prices will probably rise at least somewhat in any case when the cartel meets in Geneva on June 26. One possibility being urged by both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates: dumping the bewildering hodgepodge of existing prices and settling on a single figure for all members, perhaps at a new level of $17 to $18 per bbl. Doing so would be coupled with a pledge by members not to add on additional premiums and surcharges. That would seem merely to ratify the cartel's unilateral increases since April, with no assurance to importing nations that...