Word: waywardly
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Some followers of Marx mixed praise for their mentor with scathing criticism of wayward comrades. In a special section of the Italian Communist daily L'Unita, Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer sounded off against countries that "reduce the grand, living lessons of Marx to an ideological credo," a pointed reference to the Soviet Union. Viet Nam took China to task in a lengthy commentary on the "Great Teacher of Proletarian Revolution," published in the government daily Nhan Dan. Among other charges, the newspaper claimed that Peking's independent Communist line "negates the universal principles of Marxism-Leninism...
...than on a spaceship traveling for lightyears? With the help of a couple of Mafia gunsels and a casino owner named Dashiel Gropius, the "futfic" author assumes command of the spaceship as it blasts into the galactic void. In the infinity that awaits, Val will be a "being warm, wayward, imperfect, adaptable...
...pastor concerned with the spiritual welfare of the faithful, the Pope had also come to reprove and correct the wayward. He had harsh words for Christians in Nicaragua who have tried to forge a new church compatible with the aims of the avowedly Marxist Sandinista government and rebuked clergy who have neglected their priestly office to serve the state. Angered that no cross was placed at the site of an outdoor Mass in Managua, he deliberately held his own staff, tipped with a cross, high above the heads of Sandinista leaders seated on the platform. As John Paul delivered...
...present their new price, whatever it is, to the rest of OPEC on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. By far the largest producers in OPEC, they could send prices through the floor if they chose to pump flat out. The threat could bring Nigeria and other wayward nations into line. As Mani Said al-Oteiba, oil minister for the United Arab Emirates, declared after the two-day Riyadh meeting, "If the other OPEC nations do not accept this accord, the gulf states will have to cut the price even more...
...combined three basic elements: Chekhovian sensibility, with that playwright's rueful portrait of the hero as antihero; the Freudian irrational unconscious, with the wayward id buffeting the will-less ego; and the romantic temperament, which Classicist Gilbert Murray called "the glorification of passion - any passion-just because it is violent, overwhelming, unreasonable...