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Such strong-arm tactics have intensified the anxieties of the Roman Catholic Church, to which 90% of Nicaraguans belong. The church has refused to endorse enforced participation in an army that, it feels, is indistinguishable from the ruling party. It has spearheaded a campaign for conscientious objection, maintaining that no Nicaraguan should be punished for withholding his support from the Sandinistas. In response, Sandinista-run mobs have vandalized twelve churches, canceled processions and occasionally forced the postponement of Masses. Eight young Catholics, accused of organizing antidraft protests, were arrested by authorities at gunpoint; two priests were deported on the same...
...group of students decided the fence did not belong around the University's land. On May 16, about 60 undergraduates climbed into the garden, proclaimed it "People's Field," and held a large party, with Beach Boys music blaring from a Lowell House room and footballs and Frisbees flying...
...generalizing Yerma's dilemma into a cross-cultural experience. Rauch tones down the Spanish influences until there are only subtle suggestions of it in the delicate frill of a classical guitar and the fringed shawl that Yerma drapes over her head. And in this he excels; the villagers could belong to any village. Juan's possessive sisters to any brother and Yerma's pain to any women...
...members to a white-dominated council, designated to coordinate government policy under the direction of an executive State President. Whites will control the electoral college that chooses the new President. In other words, while coloreds and Asians will now have a voice in government, the decisive role will still belong to the whites...
...witless complain that humor is impossible to write in an age when headlines are more absurd than the products of imagination. Richler's contemporary entries offer hilarious refutation. Excerpts from Stanley Elkin's The Dick Gibson Show and Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint belong on the shelf with Rabelais and Swift. Woody Allen's The Kugelmass Episode stands as a classic. In it, a professor of humanities is propelled backward in time to the arms of Madame Bovary and the pages of a remedial Spanish textbook: "He was running for his life over...