Word: edmunds
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Archbishop Edmund Szoka of Detroit insists that a nun in such a public post must, as a minimum, declare her opposition to public financing of an operation that the Second Vatican Council deemed an "unspeakable crime." The resulting test of wills between nun and Archbishop is embarrassing Governor James Blanchard, dividing the state's Catholics, and seems destined to land at the Vatican for final judgment...
Curse the telephone, chimed the writers, with one reservation. Theodore Roosevelt wrote 150,000 letters, and his eye-weary biographer, Edmund Morris, joked that he rather wished T.R. had used a telephone more. All at the table were concerned that nowadays Presidents phone Prime Ministers and Senators leaving no record of their conversations. Couldn't Reagan write short notes when he finished his calls? He'd create a mountain of paper, maybe, but 200 years from now his jottings would be invaluable. There followed a minor scholarly disagreement George Nash (The Life of Herbert Hoover, Volume I) mentioned...
...says Michael Di Capua, editor in chief of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. But diligent was all they were. "Now it's rare for books like that to get published." Instead, the work is being done by artists who have extended their range far beyond the academic. In their debuts, Edmund Morris (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt) and Judith Thurman (Isak Dinesen) write with a verve that approaches the novelistic. And that, Di Capua concludes, is the reason for their success: "In the hands of a good writer, a life can offer the same kind of satisfaction that first-rate fiction...
...Edmund Morris, 42, has also completed one volume of a three-part presidential study. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980, and Theodore Rex will appear within two years. Unlike Caro, Morris, who keeps residences on New York City's fashionable Central Park South and in Washington, D.C., is bully on his subject. "I got interested listening to Nixon's farewell speech to his staff," he says, "because he quoted T.R.'s elegy to his dying wife." The result was an unproduced screenplay, The Dude from New York City. Some four years later...
...Merlin, the hero is observed just before the Arthurian legend, when the world is a crystalline Stonehenge and miracles are the order of the day. His teacher is a sage (played by Edmund Lyndeck, a seasoned performer). The faun who haunts his dreams (Rebecca Wright) is a comet from American Ballet Theater. And his enemy, the wicked Queen, is Chita Rivera, a blast furnace best remembered from West Side Story. In the classic tradition, gorgon and wise man vie for the magician's soul and the privilege of influencing the unseen Arthur, the once and future king...