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...will never be the same again. The word out of Armagh jail was that Bernadette Devlin, serving a six-month term for inciting riots, had taken up the peaceful craft of crocheting under the tutelage of a convicted murderess. Furthermore, when a fellow Member of Parliament, Ulster's Ivan Cooper, visited Bernadette, he found her surprisingly subdued. "In her political comments, she's a good deal more tolerant than when she went to prison," Cooper observed, "and her temper is much better than it is normally...
There is material more to the author's liking in the chapter on the new Catholicism of Cuernavaca, particularly as personified in Ivan Illich, the impresario of the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC). A dispossessed Dalmatian nobleman with a brilliant and unlikely career in the arch diocese of New York behind him, Illich set up the school to "de-Yankee" the building-fund-oriented American priests who were unprepared to serve in trackless poverty zones of Latin America. His radical ideas, particularly about education, alarmed the Vatican enough to cut off the flow of priest-students; finally, after...
Galleries first came to SoHo two years ago when Paula Cooper opened her cosy aerie up three flights of creaky, splintery stairs. More recent arrivals include Max Hutchinson, a peripatetic Australian; Reese Palley, an Atlantic City Boardwalk porcelain salesman; and smooth-talking, Brooklyn-born Ivan Karp. Uptown dealer Richard Feigen maintains a downtown branch in SoHo, and two more uptown power houses-Castelli and Emmerich-recently announced plans to open outlets in the neighborhood...
...tennis courts and boating facilities. Throughout the country, the military maintains special hunting lodges, ski resorts and summer vacation houses. The rigid strictures against drinking do not apply to officers. One marveling U.S. officer remembers a dinner in East Germany during which Marshal Grechko's first deputy, Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky, drank 18 successive vodka toasts...
...fact remains that Lenin created the instrument of power that allowed Stalin to do as he did, and he formulated the principle that ultimately made all of his successor's crimes possible: "Our morality is completely subordinated to the class struggle." Here is the 20th century extension of Ivan Karamazov's doctrine that "if there is no God, everything is permitted." Indeed, Stalin was to Lenin what Smerdyakov was to Ivan, the murderer who made his half brother's deadly aphorism come true...