Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...docks. If you want to find the "timeless serenity" of the Tuscan master, Piero della Francesca -- well, there are a number of things you should do, and they are all set out with a welcome absence of guidebook rhetoric or literary flourish in this insistently readable book. The author, who was London bureau chief of the New York Times from 1977 to 1985, must never have spent a weekend at home. Besides a journalist's curiosity and a practiced eye for the pleasures of life, he has a knack for making destinations sound both seductive and easily negotiable...
...when Reagan swept into Washington, his appointments gave bureaucratic access to a different league of players: "movement conservatives," who had a specific and radical agenda in mind. "The conservative elite," says Sidney Blumenthal, author of the forthcoming book The Rise of the Counter- Establishment, "sees itself as a counter to the liberal establishment, which includes not only liberals but traditional Republicans. Institution by institution, the conservatives have built up an infrastructure in the shadow of the liberal establishment, to combat and finally to overthrow it. The think tanks are obviously an important part of the movement." Blumenthal calls the growth...
...tall, spare man who normally dresses in nonclerical clothes, Curran, 52, is probably the best-known Catholic moral theologian in the U.S. today. The author of 16 books and a popular teacher, he has openly questioned the church's stance on contraception, abortion and extramarital sex. Broadly speaking, Catholic teaching holds that these acts are immoral in themselves and can never be allowed. Curran contends that there may be occasions when they are permissible. He also believes Rome should ease its ban on remarriage after divorce...
...announced it had issued an arrest warrant for McGuire, who stayed on to run the camp after Fossey's death. He left Rwanda in late July, after hearing rumors of his impending arrest. A government official, Jean-Damasdene Nkezabo, disclosed that although McGuire was regarded as the "principal author of the murder," five Rwandans who had worked at the camp were being charged as accomplices. The presumed motive was the theft of scientific research that Fossey had accumulated over the years...
...hard to tell at such moments whether Updike is parading knowledge or satirizing it. Roger's Version may be a novel that only the author's most faithful followers will love at first sight. Newcomers might be advised to start with Rabbit or Bech before tackling this dazzling and sometimes maddening display of talent and erudition: the labor of a serious artist to make comprehensible a mystery that cannot be explained...