Word: utterness
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...conservative, dutifully defended the church's moral tenets. But then Lustiger, who was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope John Paul II in 1981, added that those "who carry the virus and cannot live in chastity ((should)) use the proposed methods." That clearly meant condoms, though Lustiger did not utter the word. Last week in L'Express, he repeated his view. The Vatican made no immediate response, but one Roman official deemed the Cardinal's lesser-of-two-evils approach "reprehensible...
Hirsch's Charles epitomizes the dilemma of having too much of a good thing. Bigamy normally isn't considered a funny topic. Yet the way Hirsch manages to deal with his world as it falls around his knees is funny. The simper on his face expresses the utter absurdity of his situation. As he tries to explain to Ruth: "Why should having a cheese thing after lunch make me see my deceased wife after dinner...
...utter disbelief, however, upon arriving at my assigned spot this year; seniority had garnered me a seat behind a large doric column at the top of the stadium...
...Harvard can do pretty much as it wants--misrepresent itself to prospective applicants and the world at large, engage in utter hypocrisy, support racist terrorist regimes, and keep its faculty segregated--and still be protected by 350 years of Ivy tradition. Harvard can also take the moral stands its own Resolution of Rights and Responsibilities calls on it to do. It can take the moral and ethical leadership its scholastic leadership has afforded the opportunity for. It has nothing to lose...
DUKAKIS and Bush would have been proud of their representatives. After all, neither candidate has cared to address the seriousness of poverty or propose explicit solutions. Dukakis has certainly gotten closer than Bush; he'll speak of "people without health insurance" or "people without housing." But neither can utter the word "poor" in the context of improving basic social policy...