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...grown away from the dogma," he wrote on October 28, 1951. "Emphasis has been put for so long on sociology, inter-racial justice, expediency, politics, and never on doctrine. Our bishops and priests are afraid--afraid that preaching the whole truth, even if they know it, would make them unpopular with the Protestants and the Jews, would bring on persecution, and they would have to give up worldly goods, prestige, popularity, and whatever degree of security they think they have...
...back. As Brit ain's wartime Food Minister, he did an amazingly efficient job of fusing the nation by substituting such cold comforts as dried eggs and Woolton Pie (cod and potatoes) for the beefy luxuries of the British dinner table -and instead of becoming the most unpopular man in Britain, emerged as a nationally respected and almost popular figure...
...into the University. To settle the matter once and for all, the Overseers held what was known as "The Trial at the Harvard Club" and President Lowell himself appeared in the role of defense counsel. He took an unequivocal position in support of Chafee's right to espouse an unpopular cause, and the complaint was dropped...
...Leland Hayward) does a straight hack job in hit-or-miss fashion. In their first mystery farce, the authors of Life With Father and the producers of Arsenic and Old Lace never manage to make murder, or much of anything else, amusing. When the curtain goes up, a highly unpopular vice-snooper is already dead, and in due time a highly unperturbed audience finds out who killed him. But the mystery side of Remains To Be Seen can largely be ignored; indeed, the playwrights themselves set the example...
...situation in Argentina is untenable for Peron. Allende said. "A real revolt will undoubtedly come soon, and then the unpopular Peron will have only his secret police and cronies to side with him." Asked whether the leaders of this impending revolt would set themselves up as Peron-fashion dictators, Allende replied, "definitely...