Word: standpat
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...Society, such as whether or not to tamper with the fourth vow, to committee for further study. As for the daily hour of prayer, the delegates' report emphasized its importance in Jesuit tradition, but gave local provincials some leeway for making exceptions. Taken together with his recent standpat position on birth control, the Pope's rebuke showed that he intended to be cautious in carrying out the renewal promised by the Vatican Council. The day he spoke to the Jesuits, Paul told a general audience at St. Peter's: "You cannot demolish the church of yesterday...
...railroads, New York Central President Alfred Perlman once explained that for years they had endured the lash of critics who "thought the industry was like the dodo bird-with its head where its tail feathers ought to be." Until recently, the critics seemed to be right. Standpat thinking smothered rail progress for most of the first four decades of the century, while autos, trucks and air travel nibbled away at the railroads' markets. Belatedly realizing that one track that led to greater efficiency was merger, the railroads since 1956 have persuaded the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve 26 mergers...
...leadership that took place between sessions. Vatican II was first summoned by that quiet revolutionary, Pope John XXIII, who intuitively felt the need for an aggiornamento-a modernization of the church. His instinct was dramatically proved right during the first session, when a majority of the prelates rejected the standpat schemata on liturgy, the sources of revelation and the nature of the church proposed by the conservative Roman Curia...
Zacharias' M.I.T.-sponsored Physical Science Study Committee used a simple principle: it got top university scholars to reinterest themselves in high schools, after decades of leaving such tasks as textbook writing to standpat educationists. University physicists, knowing the basic unity of their subject, were shocked at the bits-and-pieces approach of high school texts, and devised a thematic course now used by 30% of all high school physics students. The example was so appealing that other university scholars plunged into other school subjects. Now, math, biology, chemistry, foreign languages and even English are all bubbling with more...
...Teacher-Parent Split. Such impassioned prose got Republican Rafferty, a former rural school superintendent and father of three, elected to his nonpartisan post last November in a landslide victory for which California's standpat educators had a big share of the blame. "There is a great difference between leaders of my profession and parents." says Rafferty. "My job is to keep this rift from growing larger...