Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Given his antipathy toward the outdated, Ancient Evenings (Little, Brown; 709 pages; $19.95) is hands down the most surprising work Mailer has ever offered. It really is set entirely in an alien long ago, just as the author had been promising during the decade he took to write it. Yet no amount of advance speculation proves adequate to the thing itself: an artifact of evident craftsmanship and utterly invisible significance...
...Name look around see an alien country and other 19 year olds who should be back in the Sheets going to school driving cars drinking beer. They give you a gun--"Final goods kill them" This won't what was thought it would be like. These gooks want to kill you more than you went to kill them...
John Paul championed the right of all to receive a Christian education. He also called on Christians to examine the teachings of the church in their search for social justice. Said the Pope, in a thinly veiled attack on Marxist-oriented "liberation theologians": "It is not necessary to hold alien ideologies in order to love and defend man. You can find in the center of the [Christian] message the teaching which calls for commitment to human dignity." Christian doctrine, he declared, teaches that man "is not reducible to a mere instrument of production, nor an agent of political or social...
Gray in his remarks before the House Judiciary Committee subcommittee on immigration supported extending the number of labor certifications awarded to alien faculty...
...When Gandhi's wife was stricken with pneumonia, British doctors told her husband that a shot of penicillin would heal her; nevertheless, Gandhi refused to have alien medicine injected into her body, and she died. Soon after, Gandhi caught malaria and, relenting from the standard applied to his wife, allowed doctors to save his life with quinine. He also allowed British doctors to perform an appendectomy on him, an alien operation if ever there was one. None of this made it to the screen...