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That sudden conversion was fateful not only for St. Augustine, who forsook his ambitions and his women to undertake an early form of monastic life, but for the subsequent development of the West. Pope John Paul II, in an anniversary pronouncement, terms Augustine the "common father of our Christian civilization." Only a handful of thinkers have had equivalent influence over such a span of years. Yale Historian Jaroslav Pelikan observes in The Mystery of Continuity (University Press of Virginia, $14.95), a new work on the saint, that in each of the 16 centuries since his conversion, Augustine has been...
...country as its national theater and itself as its subject. Horseplay was on show as much as horsemanship, and high spirits sometimes got the better of high style. Here was the first great spectacle graced with the trendified traditionalism of the second generation, the young royals. Even the Queen forsook her trademark bucket-size handbag for a small clutch that could have been borrowed from Daughter-in-Law Di. The royals know how to follow trends, it seems, as well as how to set them...
...days after the House of Representatives rejected Reagan's request for aid to the contras, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega forsook his usual morning jog to sit down in a wellappointed sitting room next to his Managua office for an interview with TIME Correspondent Laura Lopez. Casually dressed and sporting a black Swatch watch, Ortega was relaxed and open, although half a dozen armed guards lurked just outside the door. Excerpts from his remarks...
...reasons are simpler for people like Chandler Robinson of Fort Worth, a retired engineer, who with Wife Julie forsook his lifelong Episcopal affiliation to join a conservative Baptist church. Says he: "The more we found ourselves maturing in Christianity the more disappointed we became with the spiritual food we were receiving. We were looking for someone to teach us out of the Bible." The Rev. W.A. Criswell of Dallas, 76, the leonine patriarch of the Southern Baptists' insurgent Fundamentalist wing and pastor of their largest congregation, charges that liberal theology "empties the churches. Wherever liberalism places its leprous hand, there...
That was 1960, when Kennedy was a journalist in San Juan and the future Nobel prizewinner was a visiting teacher at the University of Puerto Rico. The island was also where Kennedy met Dana Sosa, a gifted dancer-singer who forsook the stage to raise three children and help her husband buy time to write during the lean years...