Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later chapters, Greeley discusses the continuing importance of the sacred, of ritual, of myth. He notes in a chapter on religion and sex, that "sexuality is by its very nature sacred and by its very nature religious." He concludes by calling upon the Church neither to dabble in "social relevance" nor to keep out of earthly affairs entirely. He would have her reinterpret her myths in order to reassert the importance of the transcendent. The Church, he says, is the only institution in a position to alleviate the despair which he sees all around us, since only religious myths...
...literature that has fascinated and frustrated interpreters for nearly 19 centuries. It is Revelation that has given art and literature the most vivid images of mankind's terrible last days: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Scarlet Beast and Whore of Babylon, the monster Antichrist and, in Chapter 20, the vision of Christ's 1,000-year reign, the Millennium. Oxford Scholar G.B. Caird, a modern interpreter of Revelation, calls Chapter 20 "the paradise of cranks and fanatics...
...Araujo Castro, spoke for many Third World leaders recently when he observed, "It is a fact that the U.N. is becoming irrelevant on matters of peace and security, and runs the risk of being converted into a sort of international institute of technology or into an ineffective chapter of the International Red Cross." He added: "The discussions on the major international questions have become the chasse gardée [private game preserve] of an ever dwindling circle of major powers, and we are moving toward a concept of new centers of power upon which to build a new structure...
...autumnal, post-landslide truce between the Nixon Administration and the TV networks ended abruptly last week with a wintry blast from Indianapolis. Speaking before a local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, Clay T. Whitehead, director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy (OTP), attacked the networks-particularly network news-with a harshness reminiscent of Vice President Agnew's florid denunciations of three years ago. Whitehead derided what he called the "ideological plugola" of TV newsmen who sell their own political views, and tartly dismissed "socalled professionals who confuse sensation with sense and who dispense elitist gossip...
...sight of its initial premises has increasingly characterized the Vatican's response to modern issues. Pope Paul's disastrous encyclical condemning "artificial" contraception, the Humanae Vitae, which did for his reign what the Vietnam war did for Lyndon Johnson's, is a marvel of obfuscation. Wills spends a long chapter unwinding its ponderous coils of theological reasoning and concludes that the whole elaborate structure rests on an empty shell. The subject of contraception is, by the Pope's own account, a matter of "natural law"--not a revealed mystery, not part of a special deposit of truths entrusted...