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EDWARD EVERETT, the versatile statesman-educator-clergyman, once said that he was "compelled to regard the post office, next to Christianity, as the right arm of modern civilization" because the mails circulate "the moral sentiments, the intelligence, the affections of so many millions." The Rev. Mr. Everett was guilty of 19th century hyperbole, but he did have a point. Each week we get 1,000 or so letters filled with the moral sentiments, intelligence, affections (and the opposite) of our readers...
RUARÍ Ó BRADAIGH, president of the Provisional wing of the Sinn Fein, the Dublin-based party that is sometimes described as the I.R.A. political arm. Just short of 40, with a high-domed, cherubic face, he looks less like an I.R.A. veteran than a high school teacher, which is what he is-although he has little time for classes these days. He works full time tending the republican movement's aboveground political machinery, leading street demonstrations, making speeches and running its propaganda campaign. He is the Sinn Fein's most visible face...
...driving organizer who made Breadbasket, a Chicago-based coalition of black ministers and entrepreneurs, into a successful tool for building black businesses. And there was the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, 45, an oldstyle Southern preacher who succeeded King as president of S.C.L.C. Officially, Breadbasket has been the economic arm of S.C.L.C. Only a few months after King died, Jackson said of Abernathy: "Man, I never listen to that nigger." As Jackson's success grew, the split between him and Abernathy widened...
...specifically portrayed, in their altarpieces. A 15th century triptych carved in oak, probably by a sculptor from Louvain, retains some of the hieratic frontality of Gothic art in its left-hand figure, St. Catherine; but Mary, in the center, decorously extends her hand to her child, whose eager little arm is poking over the edge of the strict Gothic frame, while St. Joseph, with purse, rich robes and amply confident gestures, is already a Flemish businessman...