From John Nabben re Mary Malone. (Letter to the Editor).In view of your piece on Mary Malone in News in Brief in the September issue, I e-mailed a letter to the Catholic Register in which I essentially made the same comments about Art Babychs' review of Mary Malone's book as you did, with perhaps a slightly more sarcastic sar·cas·tic adj. 1. Expressing or marked by sarcasm. 2. Given to using sarcasm. [sarc(asm) + -astic, as in enthusiastic. tinge. The Register declined to print my letter. I then made a number of attempts to call them to account on matters of fact, omission omission n. 1) failure to perform an act agreed to, where there is a duty to an individual or the public to act (including omitting to take care) or is required by law. Such an omission may give rise to a lawsuit in the same way as a negligent or improper act. , editorial direction, etc. It appears to me that the Register deliberately seeks to be bland. It has no interest in giving unqualified support to orthodoxy or·tho·dox·y n. pl. or·tho·dox·ies 1. The quality or state of being orthodox. 2. Orthodox practice, custom, or belief. 3. Orthodoxy a. , but does not want to show its liberal hand either. Occasionaly however, that hand shoots up uncontrollably, like Dr. Strangelove's fascist (jargon) fascist - Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies. The implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work done. The variant "fascistic" seems to have been preferred at MIT. one, in deciding what to print and not to print. It is a good reason to me to continue subscribing to journals like Catholic Insight. Windsor, ON |
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