Word: jans
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When will we value the N.G.P. (national growth of people) over the G.N.P.? I fear not until we run out of the means of perpetuating our cherished consumption economy. Your article "Trying to Build Confidence" [Jan. 30] implied that a healthy, happy America buys, buys, buys everything business sells, sells, sells. Laury Kohlenbrener Madison...
Italy's Protest Vote Italy's Protest Vote As a European-oriented democratic socialist, I understand American apprehension at the mounting power of the Communist Party [Jan. 23]. My question, however, is: Do you Americans think that one-third of the Italian electorate has just gone crazy in voting for the Communists, or do you think there must be a reason for this massive protest...
Those watching the Presbyterians' debate on "Homosexuality and the Clergy" [Jan. 30] may find it easier to understand how modern-day liberal theologians support homosexuality if they realize that those theologians deny that the Bible, in its entirety, is God's word. Once they reject the authority of the Bible in one area, they lose any basis to claim the Bible's authority in other areas as well...
Shame on you, TIME, for getting involved with the witless controversy over Randy Newman's hit, Short People [Jan. 30]. My initial impression of the song remains unchanged by all this brouhaha: it's a funny song about prejudice of any sort...
That left Anglican Bishop Mark Pae of Taejon, South Korea, a foe of women priests, who says that he agreed to consecrate the new bishops last November without realizing that a full-fledged schism was involved. On Jan. 16 he got an urgent telegram from F. Donald Coggan, the Archbishop of Canterbury. When he phoned Coggan, says Pae, the Archbishop "did not put any pressure on me" but "explained the gravity of the matter." The next day one of the bishops-to-be, C. Dale Doren of Pittsburgh, arrived in Taejon and spent a fruitless week trying...