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...Pope." In America we elect our leaders. Catholics do not elect the priests who will become bishops or bishops who become Cardinals or Cardinals who become Popes. I doubt the Catholic Church, in spite of the priest shortage, will ever have women as priests or as Pope. Nancy Cox, Mapleton Depot, Pennsylvania...
...bishops who become Cardinals or Cardinals who become Popes. Even if I live as long as my mother, who was over 100 years old when she died, I doubt the Catholic Church, in spite of the priest shortage, will ever have women as priests or as Pope. Nancy Cox, MAPLETON DEPOT...
...small-town real estate. Acting on his own forecasts of "major social and political disruptions in the country's urban areas" and "the most difficult times since the Civil War," Ruff recently moved his wife and eight of his twelve children to a new brick house in Mapleton, Utah, equipped with a wood-burning stove, solar water heater, storage tanks for diesel fuel and gas and two acres of corn and alfalfa...
Park Cushing and his crowd in Mapleton on the South Shore of Long Island lived as though they were afraid of some intrusion, even of some innovation. They got uneasy when something unusual happened at one of their parties-as, for example, when Park's pretty wife Lynne, doing a dance with a pair of pots for a bra, lost her pots. That was a bit off the pattern. But it was all right for Peter Bailey to strew the living room with toilet paper. That was a tradition. It was also part of the pattern for Peter...
Such was the upper-crust life in Mapleton, 1940, according to Writer Barnard, who is 29 and obviously knows his milieu and his people thoroughly. The end of the book is corny; it portrays Park Gushing, disintegrating because of wife trouble, brought to the verge of regeneration by a bad shock. But Revelry By Night is fluently readable, at times masterfully comic, and-for a first novel-a surprisingly deft study of a way of life that seems doomed to perish, as those in The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby and Appointment in Samarra already have...