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...stand-up sermon, many church men agree, is a dying art. But what should take its place? According to Dominican Father Anthony Schillaci, the answer is the mixed-media homily. A colleague of Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan at Fordham University, Father Schillaci presented his vision of the sermon of the future to a meeting in Toronto last week of the Catholic Homiletic Society. "If you see anything you don't like," he calmly warned the audience, "boo or hiss or knock the guy next to you off his chair. This is intended to stir up all kinds of emotions...
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...time a country doctor, Duvalier came to power in 1957, emerging as president after months of political upheaval, rioting, executions, and military rule. He modeled his regime after that of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and enforced it with his secret police, the famed Tonton Macoute...
Events reached a climax in 1963, when Dulavier ordered the American military mission, a single company of Marines who were training the army in police work, out of the country for "interference" in Haitian politics. A force of Haitian exiles, supported and armed by the new president of the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch, stood poised on the border. Invasion forces were thought to be arming in Cuba, and a story circulated that Duvalier had reservations on a plane to Paris and was ready to flee the country...
...General J. K. Mansfield, told of an argosy of luxuries and trivia bestowed under AID financing: a $2,111 car for the Japanese embassy in Santo Domingo, a stereophonic hi-fi system for the El Salvador embassy, wine glasses and $10,000 worth of pastel-colored bidets for the Dominican Republic...