Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uncertain Future. Unfortunately, as Greeley sees it, there is little new religious scholarship to help formulate the needed answers. The Second Vatican Council dislodged much traditional thinking, and a good deal of what has been produced since then, Greeley told the committee, has been mere fad. The U.S. church needs to have perhaps "ten or 20 at-large bishops" who are scholars themselves, and who would be free to concentrate on various specialties. One area that desperately needs new theoretical formulation, Greeley said, is sexual morality "to take into account the insights of modern psychology and personalistic philosophy...
...question is whether he can establish his square stance with what he calls an "uncertain, uneasy, concerned America." He is trying to catch a political mood that he believes to be in the air-a centrist, have-faith-in-America mood that is not unlike the one that so often is evoked by President Nixon. Even in Key West the verities of home were not too far away. Grabbing Jackson by the shoulder, Navy Quartermaster Bill Morrison told him: "Look, Senator, Dad and I waterproofed your basement back home in Everett. I think you're coming through loud...
Yevtushenko dismisses critics who complain that he refuses to give equal time to inequities in the U.S.S.R. He says, "They find it morally questionable to speak of the corruption of the Western world when in the Soviet Union the price of cognac is on the rise, the meat supply uncertain and the stores, in general, unjust...
Robert's extramarital indulgences remain cursory until he spots Stella (Susannah York) across a crowded room. A friend (Margaret Leighton, in a see-through dress you'd rather not) makes the introductions, and Robert makes the pass. Stella, interested but uncertain, takes a rain check. Zee watches the whole thing blooming but dismisses Stella as "a soulful slob." Imagine her surprise when Robert not only takes Stella as his mistress but also starts to take Stella seriously...
...paper, the game is a toss-up, but the mental factors are uncertain...