Word: whether
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...Historians William Agee, director of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and Barbara Rose. As an American painter, Agee claims in his excellent catalogue, Bruce "ranks with or surpasses the best of his generation and far outdistances a hundred artists whose reputations maintain secure places in our histories." Whether or not this is strictly true, we are still left with a very considerable painter, seen whole- or almost whole- for the first time...
...possibility of children, he argued, limits the relationship to the pursuit of sensual pleasure. John Paul unequivocally endorsed Humanae Vitae during his U.S. trip. Opinion polls in recent years have repeatedly shown that a vast number of American Catholic couples simply do not regard birth control as sinful. Whether the Pope's stand will affect them or the practice of confession of it depends on what steps are taken by U.S. bishops and priests...
...American context, the fierce dispute over abortion now concerns whether traditional Jewish and Christian teaching should be incorporated into secular law. Catholics themselves are divided. Many Catholic Congressmen oppose abortion personally but want no constitutional amendment to control it. But for John Paul, activism is essential on human rights. "If a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb," he has said, "an indirect blow is struck also at the whole of the moral order." He urged the cheering crowd in Washington to "demand that...
...adultery, citing the statement of Jesus Christ in Matthew 5: 32. But for centuries Roman Catholicism has held to stricter parallel verses in Mark and Luke. Its doctrine holds that a divorced spouse who remarries lives in a state of adultery. The current argument within Catholicism is about whether or not the church should come to terms with the millions of Catholics now into their second marriages and still eager to be on good terms with the church...
...Government has also begun to recognize its responsibility for the low level of innovation. "Whether intended or not, the Government is inevitably involved in today's innovative process," concedes Richard A. Meserve, policy analyst for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In the past three years President Carter has shifted the balance of federal R. and D. spending, which this year will total $30 billion, toward basic research. Carter this month will also present the results of a 20-month Commerce Department study on innovation. Presidential recommendations are expected to include modifications of patent and antitrust...