Word: unpopularities
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...time when Carter's human rights policy still urges the Soviet Union to give its political dissidents the freedom to leave that country, it would seem ironic for the U.S. to prosecute a former Attorney General for exercising his right to travel abroad and express his opinions, however unpopular they might be at home...
...School has been toying for years with ideas for curricular reform. With degree programs and seven departments, the Div School has not been able to focus its curriculum on what George E. Rupp, dean of the school, calls its "common center" of Christian experience. In fact, only in the unpopular senior exams were students ever asked to draw on broadly-based scholarship and integrate the fields of theological learning...
...trip will be unpopular among many Americans and will be held against those who made it, Hoffmann added
...also to you: Through him, remain united to the whole church." But wherever he went John Paul also emphasized the limits of Africanization, pointing out that Africa's Catholics are part of the universal church. He praised bishops for their loyalty to the papacy. Though celibacy is unpopular in Africa, he persistently called for reinforcement of the rule, stating that priests must not only follow it but be personally convinced of its "positive and essential values." In a region of widespread polygamy and common-law marriage, he insisted upon the church's advocacy of monogamy and sacramental marriage...
...this disbelief? Professor Genovese is merely imbibing a strong does of the McCarthyite medicine concocted by Harvard liberals in the Harberger affair earlier this year. In that case a brilliant economist with unique administrative qualifications for the proposed appointment was barred from the University because of his unpopular political associations. Professor Harbenger's critics turned sophistical somersaults to convince themselves and others that they were not impinging on his academic freedom. But the plain fact is that Harberger, no less than Genovese, was penalized and attacked because his ideas were original and controversial. His unpardonable sin was to challenge...