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...Playboy and don't say so in confession, who snicker wickedly when the bishop belches into the pulpit microphone during his Christmas sermon and especially the ones who root for USC against Notre Dame every November. But real Catholics aren't so kind. As a sign of serious spiritual decay, a Harvard education ranks right down there between nymphomania and a marked distaste for fish. It's not that Harvard is so evil, of course--it's just that Georgetown, Fordham, Holy Cross, St. John's and Notre Dame are so, well, orthodox. Maybe if Derek Bok became a Jesuit...
...remembrance and hope of Christ." Moltmann believes that the church, caught in the ambiguities of the present, must grasp both the past and the future. Without this balance, he warns, the maintenance of church institutions can become all-important, and belief in Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection could "decay into a powerless historical recollection...
...studies upon which he based his books and theories. Lorenz, in the course of his work, served as "mother" to a family of goslings, spent apparently interminable hours observing jackdaws, fish and other animals before developing his hypothesis that overcivilized modern man lives in a state of moral decay...
Shortly after Elizabeth II began her reign, John Osborne, king of the Angry Young Men, took time between hit plays to pronounce the British monarchy moribund-"A gold filling in a mouth full of decay." But how unpredictable history can be, as kings and queens are the first to know. Osborne has long since been dethroned, while Her Majesty -cresting on '70s nostalgia and God only knows what other divine rights -has never been more popular...
...group was suffering from management, money and drug problems. Santana himself, pressured by sudden stardom was "watching the band decay on the wrong energy flow...what I was really seeking was illumination not satisfaction." Santana went to Sri Chinmoy, the Ceylonese guru who'd helped John McLaughlin. McLaughlin, whose rock-jazz had been increasingly influenced by Indian raga music, had adopted the philosophy of creating his music as an offering to a Supreme Being. Santana took similar steps towards peace and enlightenment--to the point where he wrote "God Himself is the musician." The band became increasingly jazz-oriented after...