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Last week, in the Philippines, the government of President Ferdinand Marcos ordered Maryknoll Father Edward Shellito out of the country, claiming that he had not only fomented political unrest but had portrayed Jesus Christ as a rebel...
...trunk? Christ, Probably. The question is: Who the hell knows if he would want to come back...
...theater to watch Sam Spade or Philip Marlow or Humphrey Bogart. Or watching newsreels of Lindbergh. Even Tom would respond to that hierarchy. It may have been an unprecedented spree of hyperbole, but the newspapers called Lindbergh's landing "The biggest news story since the crucifixion of Christ." Well, obviously, it wasn't the biggest story since Roman times--but it might have been the biggest news story. News, after all, started out chronicling heroes. Homer and Vergil were only carrying on a tradition that started with cave paintings when they put the Odyssey and Iliad to verse. Praises...
...Norman Mailer published a hodgepodge of fiction and autobiography under the title Advertisements for Myself. In any case, windy self-advertisement became more and more popular in the years that followed. Said John Lennon at the peak of the Beatles' popularity: "We're more popular than Jesus Christ now." Said Heavyweight Boxer Muhammad Ali, in a typical flight: "It ain't no accident that I'm the greatest man in the world at this time in history." The same period at last produced an intellectual model for publicly saluting the self: Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz...
Though both Sol Meza and Christ maintained their innocence, Torres' testimony caused them to be put under "provisional arrest," but that was only the beginning of a lengthy judicial process that could last a year or more and may or may not lead to a trial. To win conviction in a Salvadoran court, another witness is considered essential to corroborate Torres' testimony. Salvadoran prosecutors hint that they may produce one soon...