Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maybe we didn't take human dignity seriously enough," says John Berg, a graduate student in government during the strike and member of the Progressive Labor Party. But, he adds, practically everyone else took it even less seriously in those days...
...home, Tommy's gifts seemed evident enough. He did not begin talking until age two, but then he spoke in com plete sentences. He was soon memorizing advanced charts of human anatomy, and could whip his grandfather at chess at age four. But at school Tommy produced conflicting est results (once scoring low in mathematical ability, later achieving a very high score). Teachers frequently complained about his short attention span, and sent him to stand out in the hall to keep him from distracting the other children. Because of his undisciplined be havior, he was at first denied admittance...
...Kingdom. Sensitive to the anguish of Catholic couples, he adroitly bypasses the birth control ban of Pope Paul VI's Humanae vitae. He sets afoot a plan to bring divorced and remarried Catholics back to the sacraments from which they are barred. He admits that "every intelligent human has some doubts about an afterlife." But his messages can be demanding. Visiting the U.S., he becomes a Savonarola, exhorting Americans to repent and share their wealth with poorer countries. Finally, this onetime combat hero courts assassination at the hands of the world's competing powers by telling Christians they...
Ultimately, though, Murphy's work is a novel of ideas: political and religious, sa cred and profane. The moral problems of war and peace, life and death, change and tradition, poverty and riches are questions that pursue every human. Murphy can not fully answer them, nor can Pope Francesco I. But they are asked in a way that cannot be ignored, and they will haunt the reader long after this remarkable epic is finally laid down...
...sincerely hope that Ms. Salomon and others like her will not limit their minds and actions to one aspect of the struggle for human rights and human dignity that is slowly but surely gaining support. John L. Johnson...