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...that is why what he thinks is so important. For the Bible is not a tool to be used by left or right. First must come the belief, and then the action, for truly radical change is internal and individual, and only then is it infectious. Christ, says Leonardo Boff in his Latin American classic Jesus Christ, Liberator, is "the one who disconcerts," the "one who provokes a radical crisis." In white America, though, where oppression at least seems to be somewhere else, it will be much tougher to argue the necessity of a theology of liberation, only when personal...
...Pope's 9,000-mile pilgrimage within Brazil came at a time when relations between the Vatican and bishops of the largest Roman Catholic nation were badly strained. Many Brazilian bishops resent the Vatican's investigation of Leonardo Boff, Brazil's leading proponent of "liberation theology," which is built upon Marxist economic theory. When the Vatican asked Progressive Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns to discourage a meeting of liberation theologians, he pointedly ignored the request. In turn, the Pope has rejected the suggestions from the Brazilians in his past four appointments of new bishops for their country...
Humor theory being the bore it is, I will try to make this as efficient a waste of time and space as possible. This will be your last review session in Humor Theory before the Big Boff Exam which begins at Graduation. If you haven't yet learned to laugh at yourself and others, you might try "sicking out" of self conscious existence; Camus did it; you can too. Or you might try that old excuse for tired minds, social realism, in which the victim complains loudly about his socially induced illnesses, thereby proving himself a healthy individual. (Remember...
...Labor in a duel to the death! The executive committee of the bourgeoisie casts off the hypocritical veil of congressional government and campaigns in its own name, while the section of the labor movement which has reached only trade union consciousness presses for its share of the surplus! The boff 'em, sock 'em bout of the century...
...Boff of the Week Standing in as host of NBC's Kraft Music Hall, Woody Allen produced a wicked parody called Bonnie's Clyde- with Allen as "Warren Beauty" and Liza Minnelli as "Faye O'Laye." Best boff: after Bonnie recites her ode to the Barrow Gang exploits, Clyde's brother Buck says, "I'm only a dumb hillbilly, ma'am, and I don't hold much truck with poetry, but you know what you've done?" Bonnie: "What's that, Buck Barrow?" Buck: "You've managed to combine...