Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best serve as an effective advocate for the world's poor and oppressed? One answer is a movement known as "liberation theology." Its proponents, who view history in Marxist terms, work to raise the consciousness of the downtrodden in what they see as a class struggle. A fringe element has even flirted with revolutionary violence. Developed in the late 1960s among Latin American Roman Catholics, liberation theology has spread with increasing force throughout the Third World, as well as among leftist Catholic and Protestant circles in Europe and North America...
Pitching, arguably softball's most important element, was handled almost totally last year by hurler Gerri Rubin. The hard-throwing sophomore will get some help this year from freshman Janet Dickerman...
Unfortunately, in Paramount Pictures soon-to-be-released film Racing With the Moon, neither element is prominent enough to carry the film to a successful climax. The movie's script suffers from a predictable, cliche-ridden plot line that becomes readily apparent in the first 15 minutes--so much so, in fact, that the audience finds itself anticipating the characters' actions well in advance of their execution. And though some of the performances are surprisingly quite professional in spite of most of the actors youth and limited experience, the performers with few exceptions fail to transcend their stereotyped role...
ROBERT LUDLUM NOVELS have always possessed an element of predictability. You've read one, and you've almost read them all. Throw in a worldwide semi-omnipotent conspiracy to take over the free-world, a desperate, haunted and isolated protagonist, a romantic interest, a trusty sidekick and you have all of the elements of a Ludlum thriller. Usually, the book contains a thrilling array of plot twists that leave you gasping for air. But not this time. Never has the predictability of a Ludlum novel nor the lack of conviction or joy in spinning a good tale hit the reader...
That President Reagan happens to be the one proposing the socialist solution to the American faith problem has its ironic element, but is beside the point. Public opinion polls indicate there is a vast majority feeling that God is good for children and that the Government ought to say so. If by saying so, however, the Government begins to destroy its principles from the inside, what then? For a big place this is an awfully delicate country, the nettings so intricately drawn that everyone feels the same reverberations. Even schoolchildren. It seems hard to believe that the whole enterprise could...