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Proponents of the changes, by contrast, claim that the simpler text will attract people who have fallen away from the church, especially the young. Presenting a copy of the Alternative Service Book to Queen Elizabeth last week, Archbishop of York Stuart Blanch declared that the Book of Common Prayer was "imposed by law upon a largely unwilling church." The new liturgy, he stated, is a "people's book." Perhaps. But traditionalists cite a Gallup survey showing that a majority of English churchgoers favor the old rites over...
...administrators extend their intellectual contempt for students to a political contempt. They dismiss the undergraduate's calls for change as naive or hypocritical. Students do not think of the institution but themselves, the argument runs, and it is the administrator's responsibility to look out for Harvard. These administrators blanch if you suggest that a student's perspective is essential because it is unique. Perhaps a student looks out for himself because he sees that no one else will. Certainly the administrator must protect his institution, but if he ignores students, he won't be able...
That left as front runners Runcie and England's second-ranking churchman, Archbishop of York Stuart Blanch, 61. But Blanch was considered a little too old and too courtly for the job. Runcie seemed more likely to bring energy and excitement to Anglicanism...
...terms of technique, Edel's advice to his class would make Boswell blanch. Throw out great masses of detail, he advises, in favor of "essences and distillations." Let the biographer describe scenes in his own words, not those of the subject. Quote documents sparingly, for fear of blurring the story line. Most heretical of all, he advocates psychoanalyzing a subject-as when, in his Henry James, he constantly linked sibling rivalry between Henry and his brother William to plots and characters in James' work...
...force exerted on passengers speeding around a 90-ft.-high loop reaches more than 3 Gs-enough to make a test pilot blanch. Since the big loops are generally on a track that deadends, riders have to repeat the entire process backward to return to the loading ramp. Traveling backward is foreign to people in a straightforward world, and there is considerable disorientation in whipping through a loop at high speed in reverse. The most hardened roller-coaster freak can climb out of a giant loop with wobbly knees and churning stomach...