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Boxer-like stance, jutting chin, sharply carved features, set on a square face make McCloskey's appearance every bit as vehement as his presidential thrust into New Hampshire--an impassioned vendetta against the Nixon Administration. "I am just tired of being lied to by members of the executive branch and having information concealed, and I think they have fallen into the habit of lying and not just to the people and the press, but to Congress...
...development will renovate a 28.5-acre plot on the shore of the Detroit River. Now occupied by decrepit commercial buildings, the area by 1980 will contain a soaring hotel, four office towers, apartment buildings and retail stores. To design the project, Ford has hired Architect John Portman, a vehement believer in the vitality of cities with proven experience in planning Atlanta's Peachtree Center and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center. Said Ford: "We all know what Chicago has done with its lakefront area. I think we in Detroit should be able to do at least as well along...
Mary Daly, Boston College theologian and the first woman to speak from the pulpit of Memorial Church, notes in her book The Church and the Second Sex that women within the women's liberation movement tend to be ex-Catholics and are vehement in their opposition to what they see as strangling and repressive social roles in large part perpetrated by a celibate male Church leadership. In partial disagreement with women liberationists both Mary Daly and Ann Kelley see the Catholic tradition as being strong and deep enough to embrace new definitions of being a woman. Ann Kelley notes with...
...microscope they wriggle torpidly, like sunbathers). "Singer's wife is washing Singer's socks in the kitchen sink and weeping prodigally," a fairly typical episode begins. "Singer watches . . . He pays attention to the great, submerged tangle of black socks, mid-calf length; his wife's red, vehement face; her tears dropping at intervals into the murky water. He thinks: My socks are washed in her tears. What a heavy responsibility...
...eliminating human life in his watercolors, Mr. Feild assured no contamination of the natural beauty by an ideological or social content. But the artist himself is a vehement social critic, a non-conformist who has often been considered "a rather dangerous sort of communist." The Aleutian bomb, contemporary art, the environmental crisis, the Indochina war indicate to him a social insanity...