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Above all, the nurses seemed enthusiastically dedicated to their calling. Their natural leader was Gloria Jean Davy, 22, one of six children of a Dyer, Ind., steel-plant foreman, and a onetime national "Sweetheart of the Future Farmers of America," who had recent ly been elected president of the Illinois Student Nurses Association; Gloria planned to join the Peace Corps after finishing training in August. Athletic Suzanne Bridget Farris, 21, one of three children of a Chicago Transit Authority superintendent, hoped to specialize in pediatric nursing, was engaged to be married next spring to the brother of another nurse, Mary...
...Marriage, Benedictine Father Dennis Doherty, who specializes in moral theology, suggests that the church might find a way out of the dilemma by redefining what it means by a valid marriage. According to canon law, a marriage is valid if it has been properly witnessed and then consummated sexual ly. If some essential requisite in the sacrament is missing, the couple may later be able to gain an annulment, which means in effect that the marriage was null and void from the beginning.* Divorce and remarriage are out of the question, however...
...today dominate the na tion's philosophy departments, William Ernest Hocking would hardly be con sidered a philosopher at all. A courtly old man who puttered about his 650-acre hilltop farm near New Hamp shire's White Mountains, carrying bird seed in his pockets, Hocking customari ly listed his occupation on income tax forms as "writer-farmer." Unfashionably, he dealt with the grand intellec tual themes that have traditionally pre occupied those who love wisdom: God, the nature of man, the meaning of life. Indeed, when he died last week at 92, in the rude stone house...
...true native species. Unlike any of his rivals or predecessors in independent Viet Nam, he is untouched by Western tradition or training, proudly parochial, untainted by the embrace of the lycée mandarins. Fiercely nationalistic and xenophobic, he dreams of a return to the golden age of the Ly dynasty (1009-1225), composed of those ardent Buddhists who formed Viet Nam's first stable government and, by pushing out Chinese influence, created a Viet Nam for the Vietnamese...
MARQUIS DE SADE, SELECTED LETTERS, edited by Gilbert Lély. From prison and the lunatic asylum, the Marquis wrote to his mother-in-law, his wife and his valet, hoping that someone would understand. These letters make a human figure of the ogre whose actions and fantasies turned his name into an eponym for the pain that, to some, gives pleasure...