Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money. There was free camping for all comers, and budget-priced breakfasts cooked by the Boy Scouts, roast-beef dinners served up by the Methodists and snacks sold along the riverbank by the volunteer firemen. "It's the area's biggest economic weekend of the year," said Martin Wicks, whose bar dispensed 1,500 bottles of beer...
...soft on Communism. After the election the new Pontiff will sell out the Western democracies. (Who more appropriate than Cardinals to say better Red than dead?) After Pope Paul dies, they nearly elect their man, but then ... If that grabs you, read on in The Final Conclave by Malachi Martin (Stein...
...entertaining. But these writers have an irritating way of implying that their novels are more than mere divertissements, that in fact they are pointing to the way things were, or are, or will be, and they indulge in all sorts of name-dropping to enhance the illusion of authenticity. Martin is by far the worst offender, since he begins with a nonfiction prelude and claims to report what is actually going on among the Cardinals; incredibly, the New York Times's bestseller list carries his book in the nonfiction category, where it ranks tenth this week. Truth to tell...
...Final Conclave was printed under extraordinary security lest it be "suppressed." By whom? The publisher didn't say; surely a banning in Boston or a burning in Butte would have hyped the book's sales marvelously, but no such thing happened, alas. With shameless self-promotion, Martin bought display newspaper ads for an open letter warning U.S. Cardinals that their church is in danger of a takeover...
...friend Billy Graham, until he began losing his faith. Since then he has held three of the top news jobs in Canada: managing editor of the Toronto Star, news director of one of its two TV networks, and editor in chief of Maclean's magazine. Irishman Malachi Martin was a professor at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, and advised Cardinal Bea during the Second Vatican Council. But he quit the Jesuits before the council ended and later wrote a book declaring that the church is a grand failure...