Word: bishops
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...Orville would probably have to say something like "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." But there is nothing in Fred Howard's biography to suggest that either of these Dayton bicycle mechanics ever had such a grandiose notion. The bachelor sons of Bishop Milton Wright lived in a circumscribed world of nuts and bolts. They took care of business, and by trial and error they slowly realized their dream of flight on the sands of the Outer Banks and over Huffman Prairie, a half-mile-long field on the Dayton-Springfield trolley line...
...destroying their traditional culture and replacing it with the values of European Christianity. At the same time, the Indians face aggressive outsiders: mining companies, free-lance prospectors and the Brazilian military. Bringing this simmering conflict to a head is the imminent retirement of Dom Miguel Alagna, 75, the autocratic bishop who for the past 20 years has reigned over the Arizona-size diocese from his unpretentious whitewashed brick residence in Sao Gabriel...
...undisputed lord of this domain was the bishop. Until very recently, "Dom Miguel was a strongman," observes Anthropologist Luciene Guimaraes de Souza of the government's Indian agency. But now the frail prelate has reached the Vatican's mandatory retirement age and will soon return home to Sicily...
...fear to use our influence. We shun ourmoral leadership. We have isolated ourselves fromthe most dramatic chapter in the story of freedomaround the world," he said. Biden added that hehimself would deal with moderate Black leaders,including Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu...
This is the lightest of the poems by various hands, liberally scattered through the text. Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" recalls an oversize catch: "victory filled up/ the little rented boat . . . until everything/ was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!/ And I let the fish go." John Ciardi celebrates "The Lung Fish," a survivor intact from prehistoric epochs: "If no/ creature is immortal, some/ are more stubborn than others." And Robert Lowell hopes that "when shallow waters peter out," he will be able to "catch Christ with a greased worm" and save his soul. The Fisherman notes, "Lowell was a Christian...