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...approach to the facility, along a twisting, narrow stretch of County Route 601, past Heart Trouble Lane, a flashing yellow warning light and a 10- m.p.h. speed limit provide the first hint that something unusual is around the bend. The compound is surrounded by a 10-ft.-high chain-link fence topped with six strands of barbed wire. Armed guards patrol the perimeter. Anyone straying past the entrance is temporarily relieved of cameras, asked to stay in the car and then shown the way out. Motorists who take an inordinate interest in the site are shadowed by security cars...
With Cabezon the reader roams Madrid's narrow streets and the back alleys where chamber pots are emptied, enters an apothecary's shop where the contents of every vial are itemized, and loiters in the city squares-always with an ear to the edicts pronounced by the town criers...
...feel particularly sad when I think of Peninsula's writers because not too long ago, I thought and felt very much like them. I grew up in a small, narrow-minded, homophobic town, and I was all three when I got to Harvard. (Narrow-mindedness and homophobia are pretty much past me, but I'm still hoping to grow taller...
...average middle-aged American has lived through astonishingly rapid social change. Civil rights movements have uprooted corrupt political systems and brought security to people who used to live in fear. Higher education has expanded beyond a narrow elite. The structure of society no longer depends on -- in fact it deplores -- the orderly confines of having everyone "know his place." These facts are so overarching that we tend to take them for granted, but they are inherently more dramatic than the domestic squabbles and psychological revelations at the heart of most U.S. theater. It is the daring, and impressively achieved, ambition...
...answer is not to condemn the Bible or leave the Church, and it certainly is not to bash Catholics or other believers or desecrate the sacraments. Nor is the answer to leave the Church and the interpretation and celebration of the faith in the hands of those who would narrow the aperture of the Spirit, deny the continuing revelation of God, and confine the liberating spirit of Jesus to the 33 years of his natural life...