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James Hitchcock's The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism, in attempting to answer the first questions, replies with a loud "Yes!" to the second and (even louder) "Liberals!" to the third. For Hitchcock, many of the Catholic liberals of the early sixties were not primarily concerned with Church renewal and reform. They only thought they were. Their real crisis, he says, was a spiritual one which they were unable to face. What liberals thought were dissatisfactions about Church structure and liturgy were, in fact, much deeper doubts about religion and God Himself. (And indeed, even the idea...
...many Senators doubt that it has achieved its aims. Congress has often drastically reduced the foreign aid requests of Presidents, including a slash of one-third in President Johnson's fiscal 1964 request and 40% in his 1969 program. Cries for reform have grown louder. In voting against the bill last week. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urged a whole "new foreign aid concept," complaining that the program had become a "grab bag" with no coherent principles guiding its distribution. He and others suggested funneling funds through multinational agencies to remove resentment against U.S. dollar diplomacy. NEW NATIONALISM. While...
...nation's concert halls the sound of trouble-financial, artistic, moral, spiritual-is growing louder every day. The New York Philharmonic is not a conspicuous example. With a safe home in Manhattan's Lincoln Center and an endowment of $10 million, it is hardly in mortal peril. But its officers-President Carlos Moseley, Board Chairman Amyas Ames-have seen the need to face change and the future. Boulez is the result. A relative newcomer to the international conducting ranks, he is also largely untried in the familiar repertory of late 18th century and 19th century staples, so that...
...Sabet's excursion into le goût royal cost the equivalent of the collective income of 1,260 of his fellow Iranians, who earn an average $330 or so a year; and with it the creak of imaginary tumbrils with real collectors in them grows a little louder...
...sprinter's start. I was pushed gently but firmly into my backrest. From the rear of the plane I could see the nose leave the ground, tilting upward and upward until the fuselage looked like a tipping tunnel of love. From the inside, the noise was no louder than that of a normal jet. We were off the ground in seconds and climbing at a sharp angle...