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...Copts, who number at least 10% of Egypt's population, are akin to Eastern Orthodox Christians in liturgy and doctrine. As in other Eastern churches, monks play an important role, since only they can become bishops. While the number of monks in Western religious communities has declined by the hundreds during the past decade, the nine ancient Coptic monasteries of Egypt, almost deserted a few years ago, are now filled to overflowing. Though Egypt is identified with Islam, no place could be more appropriate for a monastic renaissance. It was in Egypt that monasticism first flowered, nurtured...
...Billy and I have sort of influenced each other over the past five years, we've grown together and changed each other. We're very much akin in our philosophy, and we developed our style together...
...trendy chic of New York (circ. 364,000), the pacesetting weekly first published as an independent magazine by Clay Felker in 1967. (Felker had been its editor in an earlier and simpler incarnation, when it was a Sunday supplement of the now defunct New York Herald-Tribune.) Regular features akin to Felker's "The Underground Gourmet" (budget-minded restaurant reviews) and "The Passionate Shopper" are staple fare, and New York's penchant for parlor-game lists ("The Ten Worst Judges," "The 100 Greatest Freebies in Town") has been widely copied. Unlike New York, which often ranges afield...
...times my attempts to interview these elite students became something akin to Philip Marlowe's cracks at finding Rusty Regan. The morning after scheduling an interview with an Iranian undergraduate whose only requirement was that I not bring up the subject of politics, I was awakened at 8:30 a.m. by a ringing telephone. Clearly agitated, the Iranian undergraduate haltingly told me that there could be no interview at all, politics or not. The SAVAK, the Shah's internal security organization which has an agent for every 40 Iranians, was the reason why, the student said. The Shah's people...
West Germany's auto industry, after two years of flagging sales and profits, is racing out of the valley of despair like a supercharged Porsche showing its paces in an Alpine rally. Output rose 47% in January from a year earlier, and many executives view 1976 with something akin to euphoria. Predicts Robert A. Lutz, head of German Ford: "It will be a fantastic year...