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...demoralized. Long before the Second Vatican Council, the archdiocese led the nation in liturgical and pastoral innovations, social action and intellectual debate. But that spirit waned under the conservative leadership of John Cardinal Cody, who was archbishop from 1965 until his death last April. Cody was an old-style autocrat who alienated large groups of Catholics. He spent diocesan money, closed inner-city schools and reassigned priests with little or no consultation. In later years he became increasingly isolated from his clergymen, nuns and laity. His last months were darkened by accusations that he diverted up to $1 million...
Perhaps Ramsay is most formidable as a conservative autocrat of the breakfast table who tells his young son that the government is ruining the country. The boy replies that his teacher says the government should help people in Depression times. Fuming in anger, the father deliberately makes the boy late for school. Ramsay seems to embody the Wasps as Gurney critically and compassionately sees them-a breed whose manners calcified into morals while the society around them abandoned morality...
...happened, Brandeis was a closet autocrat, and Frankfurter was far from monkish in his ambitions. In this startling volume, Bruce Allen Murphy, an assistant professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University, reveals that two of the nation's most revered Justices simultaneously practiced law and politics. Previously unpublished documents show that during his service on the Supreme Court (1916-39), Brandeis paid his protege Frankfurter, then a Harvard law professor, some $50,000 to act as a political lieutenant. Frankfurter's mission: to promote social activist goals that might have been viewed as inappropriate for Brandeis himself...
...within the system--for it is only in the American system that such an ignominious association could operate. The Moonies feed on capitalism and prey on its confused population. It is no act of rebellion to join, or be corrupted into joining, the Unification Church. Rev. Moon, the Supreme Autocrat, will exploit you to the fullest and cart off his rewards. Mr. Selover, who is himself a Moonie, is not justified in discussing the cult as a religious phenomenon; the Unification Church is an economic entity that cynically mirrors the tragedy of American life. Adam Steinhouse...
THIS SORT OF contentment is music to an autocrat's ears. "The one thing I like about running the Quincy House comic collection is seeing people get exposed to comics," McKinney says. "I see people picking them up for the first time, instead of reading a textbook or something." He pauses. "It was really one of the things that made me come to Quincy had a comic collection in the library said a lot about the House...