Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Human kind cannot bear very much reality," T.S. Eliot observed. Evidently, neither can many prominent novelists. An increasing number are now in flight from the everyday world they used to chronicle. In his latest novel, God's Grace, Bernard Malamud conceived of a latter-day Noah, adrift on an ark. Doris Lessing has taken an apparently irreversible leap into outer space with her multivolume chronicle of "galactic empires." Now Joyce Carol Oates has again wandered off into the never-never land of the neo-gothic romance. In Oates' case, the purpose of the excursion is parody. A Bloodsmoor...
...evokes a peculiar response. Some people conjure up images of civilized, altruistic Christians devoting their lives to instructing ignorant tribesmen in the rudiments of modern medicine. Others think in terms of the colonial exploitation of an economically dependent Third World. But negative stereotypes do not daunt the Church of Latter-Day Saints, popularly known as the Mormon Church, which currently boasts a missionary population of 32,000-35,000 youths...
...Pope-Arafat meeting infuriated Begin. He declared in a broadcast that "the church, which had stood by during the Holocaust and when Christians were being killed in Lebanon, is now prepared to meet the man who initiated the latter, and is trying to complete the Nazis' mission." The Vatican took the rare step of handing out a press communique branding the Israeli charges "an insult to the truth" and noting that John Paul, at Auschwitz hi 1979, had condemned Nazi genocide...
...latter has proven correct. George Hendrick leads the team with a mere 18 home runs; the team as a whole has clubbed only 59, fewest in either league...
What is clear, however is that minority law students must not shrug off the fact that 59 law students have figuratively crossed the picket line and enrolled in the boycotted class. The latter--who obviously care about civil rights -- is just the sort of group that must be won over for civil rights and affirmative action to press onward...