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Delbanco is not interested in Channing alone, though he hopes to "help restore Channing to the canon of American literature." He is concerned with the development of the liberal spirit in America in the early nineteenth century. William Ellery Channing is not so much a biography of a man as of an age. It is the story of religion, literature and politics in an experimental democracy, and their intimate and inevitable relationships. Channing serves as an emblem of this age, a man whose religious training and thinking helped draw him into political engagement. Delbanco argues that he is more than...
...future is tied up with that firm, they are willing to be more flexible at work than employees in many Western countries. New machinery is not a threat to a worker's job but a useful tool that may help improve company profits. As Fujio Mitarai, head of Canon U.S.A., told TIME'S Robert Grieves: "In order to automate production, we had to divert workers into altogether new fields. We moved them from cameras to copiers to calculators, but we kept everyone employed in the process...
Willie himself has a theological background. From 1970-74, he was the vice president of the House of Deputies of the Episcopal Church in the United States. He resigned after a highly publicized controversy in which he advocated the ordination of women in the church, even though the church canon did not specifically allow it. Willie says that, at that time, he was in-line to become the next president of the 3-million-member church and that he received numerous phone calls begging him not to participate in any service in which women were ordained. Willie says softly...
...letter to the London Times, the Canon of Westminster, the Rev. John Austin Baker, implored the government to be more flexible. "Even at this late hour an attempt could be made to avert a new legacy of bloodshed and bitterness," he wrote, "and many people here in England are conscious of our responsibility not only in but for this tragic situation." At week's end Catholic Political Leader John Hume reported that "a door has been opened" in his talks with Ulster Secretary of State Humphrey Atkins. Most observers devoutly hoped so. If some room for compromise...
...decorum she may have felt that their very privacy was what made them unpublishable. If so, she failed to reckon on this age's voracious, ransacking appetite for all that is private in a writer's life. As significant as her novels may be in the canon of modernist fiction, what really makes her writing live today-and what largely accounts for the current Virginia Woolf boom in publishing-is the vividness of personality in her nonfiction. When her letters and memoirs are added to the complete diaries (three volumes published, with...