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...strategy has been to try to strengthen the Lon Nol government in advance of negotiations with the Khmer insurgents. But at the moment the insurgents do not seem to have much interest in negotiating anyway. One unresolved question was whether or not they would accept the titular leadership of deposed Prince Sihanouk, who is strongly backed by both Hanoi and Peking. Although Communist elements among the insurgents have little use for Sihanouk, there was a possibility that they might try to use his popularity with the peasantry to broaden their own movement. One Eastern European diplomat in Phnom-Penh suggested...
...watched our seduction by the Moynihan myth of the black matriarchy. And continually, still, we miss the union and explication of our perceptions of the reality through which we are living, and through which we wish to live; simply because it is so easy to accept the idealizations, those titular and usually meaningless idealizations of our being...
...Mafia patois a mechanic is a hit man. The titular mechanic of this misshapen thriller is Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson), a name so bland that we must assume the producers were at pains to appease antidefamation groups of virtually every nationality. Bishop is a psychopathic Mr. Fixit, flawlessly efficient at doing in whoever has fallen out of favor with his employers. Emotionless, a loner, Bishop spends hours studying his quarry...
...president, Episcopal Laywoman Cynthia Wedel. Last week in Dallas, the N.C.C. General Assembly chose as her successor its first black president: the Rev. W. Sterling Cary, 45. Cary is currently chief administrator of the 91 United Church of Christ congregations in metropolitan New York City. He brings to the titular office a broad ecumenical background: ordination by the National Baptist Convention, pastorates in an interdenominational church, a Presbyterian church, and a United Church of Christ congregation in Harlem. In a statement accompanying the news of his election, Cary complained about the slow progress of Black Power in the churches: "Empowerment...
...holds a psychology doctorate from the University of Chicago. Together, they merchandized Psychology Today into a profitable part of Communications/ Research/ Machines, which they founded in 1967. Last July they quit C/R/M, took over the Review, and started planning its transformation. Now that Cousins is gone, Charney becomes titular editor of the Review; he and Veronis will become co-editors in chief of the newly formed parent conglomerate, Saturday Review Industries. They are still seeking an executive editor to run the weekly and four planned monthly versions of the Review...