Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evil had no chance against such moral exemplars. The Shadow, who was invisible to malefactors, informed them that "the weed of crime bears bitter fruit." Dr. Christian, an M.D. with the deductive powers of Nero Wolfe, announced that "when you've lived as long as I have, you'll find justice always gets the breaks. [PAUSE] Wrongdoing never pays off in the end." Once the criminals were run to earth, Mr. District Attorney would prosecute them to the full extent of the law; there were few defense-attorney heroes in the old days...
...wing Catholic columnist declared that even discussing the book would be an occasion of sin. (Greeley promptly started a sequel.) The New Agenda (Doubleday) may be Greeley's best theological work to date. It is a thoughtful pastoral prescription for a changing church, which, however, insists that basic Christian concepts-the Resurrection, a Saviour, God's fidelity-are still valid answers to modern man's anxieties. Says Eugene Kennedy: "Greeley is a progressive centrist. He defends the church while trying to move it forward...
...casualties of the Yom Kippur War was the growing ecumenical spirit between Christians and Jews. In fact, like the 1967 war before it, the war this autumn shocked Christians into sometimes sharp reappraisals of Israel, and shook Jews with the fear of antiSemitism. One Protestant ecumenical expert in Israel, indeed, lamented that Jewish-Christian relations "have never been more seriously threatened...
...Syrian ambassador to the Holy See, the Pope complained that "The Palestinian people, living miserably, plead that their right to self-determination be recognized." Last week Paul also expressed concern over the fate of Jerusalem's holy places-a thorny political and religious issue that will involve intra-Christian negotiations as well as talks between Arabs and Jews...
Christmas is a time when people reach for their Dickens, in their minds if not on their bookshelves. The prevailing sentiments of the season, after all, stem as much from Dickens' Scrooge and Bob Cratchit as from the Christian church or Macy's. Thus this compendium of material by and about England's greatest popular novelist is timely. Not too timely, though, for it is no glossy candy box of a book. Unillustrated and unpretentious, its value will endure many Christmases...