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...confirm his suspicion, Martha's employer and sometimes lover, a leftist writer by the name of Mark Coldridge, retreats to his study, which he wallpapers with world maps on which various colored markers denote War, Famine, Riots, Poverty, Prisons, "like medieval Humours...
With four-fifths of the country owned by Englishmen or their clients after 1662, a small farmer could not afford even to think about sex. Marriage for him was early death. And he clung to a religion that often tended to confirm his caution. The 18th century priests, trained in the flesh-hating Jansenist seminaries of France, gave him the rationale for what he had to do anyway. It was not a specifically Catholic matter. Protestant churches in Scotland and Wales, countries also under the British thumb, were equally repressive...
...Wild Bunch contains faults and mistakes, but its accomplishments are more than sufficient to confirm that Peckinpah, along with Stanley Kubrick and Arthur Penn, belongs with the best of the newer generation of American film makers...
...nation was young, proud and prickly. Proud of its achievements and of its mighty land, but looking for someone, somehow, to confirm it in its pride. It fell to Cole to see and paint the U.S. with a vision of its grandeur that expressed the young nation's inner vision -of a landscape that need yield pride of place to no other country...
...Santa Fe last week, where he is teaching literature at St. John's College on leave from his archdiocese, Shannon refused to confirm or deny the reports of his resignation but did explain his letter to the Pope. "A bishop is not just resolving these questions for himself," he said. "He is asked to give counsel to others. His burden of responsibility is greater than that of the individual Catholic." Shannon himself hopes to continue to teach at St. John's College through the summer. If and when the Pope accepts Shannon's resignation as Auxiliary Bishop...