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...revival effort has a long way to go. Confession has been in steady decline for decades. Reasons range from long-standing doubts about church teachings to the current obsession with public mea culpas that have largely supplanted the confessional booth. One oft mentioned cause is Vatican II, the 1960s church council whose reforms stressed what Pope John XXIII called "the medicine of mercy rather than that of severity." Since confession, with its accompanying penances, is all too often associated with the latter, many Catholics use Vatican II as a cue to scratch the sacrament from their to-do list. Some...
...thought it had the Korean War sewn up, but it spent the next three years slugging it out with Mao's "volunteers." In The Coldest Winter (Hyperion; 736 pages), David Halberstam, who died in April, brings angry wisdom to a conflict that, after the moral clarity of WW II, seemed remote and incomprehensible. It was the miserable prototype for wars to come...
...business school, Kilts has written a dense, complex book intended for others at the top. His description of starting a job says it all: "Your first day of a new job should be like the first hours of the D-Day landing by the Allies during World War II." In Kilts' book, nonexecutive employees are casts of thousands, not individuals. Kilts bluntly declares, "Continuous dissatisfaction must characterize the leader, which results in continuous improvement...
...anything interesting. The only surviving son of an ancient but dwindling Anglo-Catholic family, Guy lives in self-imposed exile, completely removed from his friends and relations while his estranged wife marries and divorces a string of wealthier and more fashionable men. The onset of World War II provides Guy one last chance at redemption and glory, but he soon finds the military to be full of cowards and lunatics, endlessly scheming against each other for their own narrow ends. For most of the first two books in the trilogy, Guy’s life is a series of near...
...videos, bringing their vision of so-called “skits ‘n’ giggles” to the world at large. Sure, some bits wear cultural references on their sleeves (visual allusions to “The Terminator,” “Superman II,” and the like), but the show is rooted in an ethos of comedy that anyone can plug into. Who out there can’t appreciate the idea of rival child-talent agents angrily dividing up the town? (“We get fat kids...