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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essentials of Catholic dogma stand, of course, as does Rome's claim of universality. What has changed drastically is atmosphere and attitudes. "Before, the church looked like an immense and immovable colossus, the city set on a hill, the stable bulwark against the revolutionary change," says the English Benedictine abbot, Dom Christopher Butler. "Now it has become a people on the march - or at least a people which is packing its bags for a pilgrimage...
...Simbas-or what is left of them -are scattered throughout the bush. Yet some of them are still heavily armed and capable of menacing rural villages. The job of keeping them under control now passes to Major John Peters, 38, a onetime street fighter from the grimy English mill city of Leeds. A specialist in coping with sticky situations, Peters was called upon to break the Simbas' front line at Baraka, the toughest battle the mercenaries ever fought. Peters stood up, gripped his officers' baton (he never draws his pistol in battle), and led an attack that broke...
...until 1727 was it made punishable under English common law; not until 1 957 did the U.S. Supreme Court hold that it was not covered by the First Amendment guarantees of free speech and press. But even in that decision (Roth v. U.S.), which upheld a federal obscenity statute, the court was clearly unclear about the "dim and uncertain" line between obscenity and protected expression. Painfully, the court decreed three tests...
...case in which it is not necessary to read the book." Commented Justice John M. Harlan: "Maybe I wasted my time reading it in advance." Undaunted, Rembar argued that all sorts of experts have long since attested to Fanny's social importance in "the development of the English novel." Publishers should not be saddled with conflicting state opinions, insisted Rembar...
Cactus Flower. Humor is often the puckish shadow cast by national character. English comedy is a running display of oneupmanship, reflecting an indelible class system. The Teutonic cast-ironies of Brecht seem manufactured by Krupp. The classic American comic event is the chase, a drolly tangible version of the pursuit of happiness and the American Dream. And the French sex farce is logic run rampant, reason carried to an unreasonable and absurd extremity. That is why French sex farces are innately sexless: Descartes wrote them all. They begin with cogito ergo sum, and they rely not on seduction but sophistry...