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...escalating war between church and state is an amazing turn for Latin America, a region with 263 million baptized Roman Catholics.* Catholicism was long content to buttress the governments and military and economic interests that were in power, hoping thereby to encourage social stability and to pre-serve church privileges. A new generation of church leaders, however, inspired by the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and Popes John XXIII and Paul VI, is more active in struggling against injustice and oppression. The new generation also has a compelling cause for its fast-developing political involvement: military takeovers in nation...
...Following the arrests of the students, for instance, Robert Reichley, vice president for university relations, appeared on local TV news programs and declared that it was not student actions that ended the embarrassing strike; both publicly and privately, the Brown administration has fostered the notion of "community" as a buttress against the bad press generated by student actions on behalf of the workers. Many students--including Nathan Bicks, president of the Brown student council--say they believe the arrests, the first ever on the Brown campus by local police, permanently destroyed that notion...
...fact, most of the latest figures on the economy can be read to buttress either Grove's pessimism or Greenspan's optimism. Take unemployment, which has risen to 7.9% of the labor force. To Democrats, that means that 7.5 million Americans are out of work...
...roles, unable to do much with such a bad script. Mark O'Donnell as Fritz, the student who makes the mistake of leaving his betrothed alone too long, is even more inept and ineffectual than the part calls for. Derek Pajaczkowski is no better as the loud and boorish Buttress, straining too hard to produce minimal comic effects...
Still, his thoughts about the abrasions of the individual are valid and troubling: "We are driving," observes Warren, "toward the destruction of the very assumption on which our nation is founded." His use of American literature to buttress this charge creates an inspired mini-anthology. By the book's close, Warren's defense of art becomes an antidote to the despondency he professes. Amid all the euphoria of the Bicentennial, this small volume concludes with a sharp, and, in the deepest sense, patriotic note...