Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wage to at least 75?, make primary schooling free and give government employees the right to organize, did most workers return to their jobs. Teachers, however, remained out, demanding higher salaries. Toward week's end their protests were joined by several hundred black-robed priests of the Coptic Christian Church, who demonstrated outside Parliament. Claiming to speak for Ethiopia's 200,000 priests, they threatened to strike unless they received a boost in their current $1.50 monthly minimum allowance. Also angry were the capital's estimated 50,000 prostitutes. In leaflets, addressed to the police and signed...
...veterans-Film Critic Stanley Kauffmann, White House Reporter John Osborne and the salty TRB Contributor Richard Strout of the Christian Science Monitor-help sustain the magazine's flair for bright commentary. For the purchase price of $380,000 (plus a somewhat larger amount in pending taxes), Peretz has also acquired a special responsibility: to maintain the unusual character that the New Republic has acquired in American journalism since earlier writers like Walter Lippmann, Bruce Bliven and Edmund Wilson began burnishing its pages...
...essays by Frank Kermode bear all the marks of a penetrating intelligence hamstrung by external restrictions. This sense of containment is clearest in Lear, where Kermode seems to feel required to beg the whole question of literary interpretation and retreat to the view that since Shakespeare's audience was Christian, we can safely assume the play does not mean what it says. Kermode was not so cautious when he edited his brilliant Signet edition of The Winter's Tale. Perhaps now that he's installed in a plush Cambridge professorship, his old sense of adventure will reappear. Harry Levin...
...must be manifest in the world," and concurs that "a special responsibility for this may be entrusted to one individual minister, under the Gospel." Moreover, it notes, "the Bishop of Rome," whom Catholics already accept in this role, might "in the future function in ways" useful to the broader Christian church...
...commission is still studying the most controversial issue of all: papal infallibility. And last week's statement emphasized that for Lutherans, any function of papal primacy must not "subvert Christian freedom." Moreover, none of the theologians' dramatic agreements so far have been translated by either communion into effective action, such as the approval of exchanges in celebrating the Eucharist. The statement suggested a growing impatience for such a move. One of the questions posed for the Catholic Church was whether "in the expectation of a foreseeable reconciliation," it is ready to accept the Lutherans as "sister churches, which...