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...Battles took place on a long, hot, August day, the day of Grannie Refro's birthday, and the family reunion. Jack was home from jail and the lovers were reunited. But it reads more like a Walt Disney script than a novel. The superbly animated, soulful characters are little dei ex machina without any sort of reality to descend into...
...Europe, as well as the best traveled, having visited 60 countries in the past three years. Tough and openly ambitious, he is more politically flexible than LÓpez RÓdo: he has been associated with both the half-moribund Falange party and the pragmatic, outward-looking Opus Dei, whose members (including LÓpez RÓdo) dominate Franco's Cabinet. While he was Minister...
...likely he will someday be Spain's Prime Minister. Whoever takes over in the post-Franco era will face a task made more complex by the long years during which all opposition was suppressed. Almost every institution in Spain-from the army to the church and even Opus Dei itself-is divided between conservative and moderately progressive wings, and on how to deal with increasing signs of unrest. In recent weeks there have been clashes between police and unemployed workers in the poor barrios of Madrid, and demonstrations against rising prices (Spain's inflation rate is 7.8%). Campus...
...work takes its form from the Catholic Mass, the Kyrie eleison, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei. As more or less ironic counterpoint, a populist band of sinners and dancers variously sing, intone or howl doubts and questions in a mélange of musical styles and pop-lyric words by Bernstein and Stephen Schwartz, the 23-year-old creator of Godspell, the musical version of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. The dramatic climax of the work is the disruption of the Mass. It also involves the spiritual shattering of a young man who begins...
...Elmbrook is indeed a center of Opus Dei where some students and professional people live. But it is not a little group of holy boys residing tastefully north of the Common cultivating some nice religious practices. It is a center that serves hundreds of Harvard students as well as professional and working people of the Boston area, challenging them and helping them to find that their faith-and indeed their very lives-just might mean something after...