Word: bernards
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...Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law, a strong advocate of the catechism idea, also differed somewhat with the president of the U.S. hierarchy, James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, about the increasingly important role played in the church by national bishops' conferences. Malone emphasized their importance to the church in collective policymaking, and argued that the teaching authority of the conferences, on certain issues and in cooperation with the Pope, should be recognized by Rome. Law, however, warned that national conferences should never usurp the powers of individual bishops...
...must get your eyes accustomed first and gradually to the different light," Vincent Van Gogh told his brother Theo in 1889. The different light that shines from a Van Gogh painting has been astonishing the world ever since. It does so once more in Bernard Zurcher's sensitive picture biography, Vincent Van Gogh: Art, Life, and Letters (Rizzoli; 325 pages; $60). In the ten years before his suicide, Van Gogh turned out more than 2,000 drawings and paintings, progressing from somber browns and greens to the bright hues of his last months. Nearly a century later, they still radiate...
...HAVE TO feel sorry for Public Health School doctor Bernard Lown. He's receiving the Nobel Peace Prize today in Sweden, and probably nothing so far in his distinguished life has given him so much unexpected grief. He's been called naive by Reagan Administration officials; his credibility has been challenged by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and he's had to answer endless questions about how far in cahoots his Soviet counterpart, Dr. Evgueni I. Chazov, really is with the Kremlin bosses. And all along he's patiently repeated over and over again the leitmotif of his group, International...
...IPPNW--to discredit and change Western nuclear weapons policy--deserves a thorough exposition and labelling, if not by IPPNW itself, then by concerned observers throughout the West. Responsible discussion of what the West should do to prevent nuclear holocaust is not served by dissembling pseudo-experts like Dr. Bernard Lown...
...Bernard Bajolet, a counselor at France's Embassy in Rome, said the Geneva meeting was "a stage, not really a start nor an end [in bettering East-West relations...