Word: authorly
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...recently suggested he skip a few of his normal appointments. He shrugs off suggestions of retirement with a joke: "Who would I give my letter of resignation to?" John Paul is determined to lead the church into the next millennium, says Richard John Neuhaus, an American priest and author recently in Rome. "He's not hesitating to exhibit his physical frailties," says Neuhaus, "which I think is intended both as a pastoral help to people with similar frailties and also as a sharing in the suffering of Christ." If the Parkinson's gets worse, he adds, "people could get used...
...will be occasional criticisms upon the methods of instruction and government followed here. We may differ from those who teach us, but in every case we shall be careful not to say anything unworthy ourselves [sic] or them. Wild and general accusations, in which the plainest thing is the author's bitterness, do not get or deserve much attention. But to a carefully considered, temperate article nobody ought to object; for, though its ideas are unsound, they are less likely to be harmful if stated fully and clearly than if left to spread through the college in the disjointed form...
Crimson Managing Editor Susan C. Faludi '81 remembers thinking this an appropriate transition. A best-selling feminist author, Faludi characterizes the paper's international coverage as "a little self-aggrandizing" with its presumption that "anybody was going to be turning to the editorial pages of The Crimson for foreign policy...
...extraordinary and unique talent and phenomenal insight into the human condition," said Florence Ladd, an author and former head of the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College...
Raul Hilberg, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Vermont, and author of The Destruction of the European Jews, noted that in debates such as these, "one does not as a rule hire lawyers...