Word: bookes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suenens had formulated his views on churchly change in a book called The Gospel to Every Creature, in which he first described such ideas as co-responsibility of laity, priests and hierarchy in the church. In 1962, as a newly elevated cardinal, he counseled Pope John XXIII on the preparations for Vatican II, and later acted as one of the council's four moderators. Pope John selected him as a special emissary to the U.N. to present the now famous papal peace encyclical, Pacem in Terns. After John died, Suenens worked closely with his good friend Paul...
...there is loneliness at both ends of the line. The listeners seem to get as much out of it as their callers. But many of the calls are like unfinished stories that have a beginning but no end. "It's like reading only a little way into a book," said one listener rather wistfully. "You don't always know how things work...
After eight years and three elections, White has established his own political system. He has a vast network of friendly power brokers, governmental aides, trend watchers, reporters, poll takers and precinct vigilantes. This book is almost overwhelmed by his efforts to preserve-and not to offend-this intricate organization. Nelson Rockefeller is elevated to near sainthood before he is politically buried. Even Lyndon Johnson, sulking back on the ranch-the man who White points out was most responsible for Viet Nam, fragmented his party, nearly destroyed the nation's trust in its government-gets his requiem. "Few men have...
White's third account ultimately disappoints. What is bothersome in the book is bothersome in the nation. As White himself explains: "It is difficult to be precise about the nature of the nightmare year out of which came Nixon's election. No phrase, no thought can catch, hold and bind together in one frame all the roaring events, the blood and disorders, the inflation and uprisings...
Earliest Voice. Babel himself put the matter of his individuality best. In a 1937 interview, the text of which Miss Babel has included in her book, he told the hounding members of the Union of Soviet Writers: "You talk about my silence. Let me tell you a secret. I have wasted several years trying, with due regard to my own tastes, to write lengthily, with a lot of detail and philosophy -striving for the sort of truth I have been talking about. It didn't work out with me. And so, although I'm a devotee of Tolstoy...