Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teacher and a writer on semantics, had been best known for his trademark tam-o'-shanter and his boldness in quelling dissident student demonstrators during the turbulent late '60s when he was president of San Francisco State College. On the issues, he sounded more or less right wing and eccentric. Once he called for sending unarmed U.S. troops "who could be armed if necessary" to southern Africa under U.N. auspices to prevent a bloodbath there. He expressed open disdain for homosexuals and expressed misgivings about a California law prohibiting business collusion with the Arab boycott as an unwarranted...
...Argentina, since last March's military coup seven priests, two seminarians and three nuns have been murdered by suspected right-wing death squads with ties to the police. In addition, a bishop who was investigating the murders was killed in a suspicious automobile crash...
...impossible for us to concentrate only on pastoral work when we knew human beings were being tortured and mutilated." President Ernesto Geisel, who is a Lutheran, claims that he has ordered an end to political torture, but local police and military officials persist in the practice, as do right-wing vigilantes such as those who kidnaped Bishop Hypolito. After the murder of Father Burnier last month, a Mass was said by the Archbishop of Vitoria "in memory of all those persons who in our country and in all of Latin America suffer violence, torture and death solely because they demand...
...bishops and centrist priests have been reluctant to criticize the new military government, which is striving with great difficulty to re-establish public order. Moreover, the church's authority has been weakened by the past involvement of a group of Argentine Third World Movement priests with left-wing Peronist guerrillas...
...real thing-and offer a skewed reality to boot: "I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it, a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing." Instead of their lovers, Gass wants writers to caress their language: "It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word." In Gass's view, the truly "blue" writers are not those who flaunt explicitness but those whose works...