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...Bard as an intimate. Others may puzzle over the identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets; Rowse is sure that she is Emilia Bassano Lanier, the half-Venetian wife of a court musician and "a bad lot." As for those who find evidence of homosexuality in the canon, Rowse dismisses them as "silly buggers. The idiots can't see that Christopher Marlowe was a roaring homo, and Francis Bacon was a homo, but that Shakespeare was more than normally heterosexual-for an Englishman." Such fulminations have provoked assaults by critics, who find the challenger "impudent," "self-advertising...
Speaking to participants in Harvard's African Seminar, Collins, who is Canon of St. Paul's Church in London, said that various African liberation organizations, which he declined to name, approve and direct the flow of money from the fund to South Africa...
Political trials in South Africa, Rev. L. John Collins, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral in London and president of the International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, rm. 3, 1737 Cambridge...
...inaugural address to the Cardinals last week, John Paul pledged to carry forward the work of the Second Vatican Council, convened by Pope John XXIII in 1962 and concluded by Paul in 1965. He would, he said, put a "priority" on the ongoing revision of the canon law codes. Last year, however, the then Cardinal Luciani commented of this project: "With Montesquieu, we must say, 'The laws need to be touched with trembling hands...
...been mentioned as a candidate because of his own concern with the capital's poor, but his efforts have been less intense and less successful than Ursi's. One powerful Italian, Pericle Felici, 67, who heads the Vatican commissions on implementing Vatican II and on revising canon law, will figure prominently in the conclave, but is rated too abrasive a conservative to be elected...