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...problem Janeway does not face is a lack of resources: the Globe's parent company has made a pretax profit of $40 million for the first nine months of 1984. He recognizes the paper's complex and imperfect character. "I want to nourish the traditions of individuality and crusading," he says, "but I may put greater emphasis on other flags we salute, such as consistency and keeping opinion out of the news columns." Adds Winship modestly: "Mike may be better at keeping the paper steady than...
...document reveals the acute dilemma that the church leadership faces. Even while it opposes the radical nature and methods of liberation theology, it supports the battle against social ills and in justice. Referring to Latin America, it condemns military dictatorships, corruption and economic exploitation. These ills, the decree says, "nourish a passion for revolt among those who thus consider themselves the powerless victims of a new colonialism in the technological, financial, monetary or economic order." And the logic and language of Marxism, it declares, are "incompatible with the Christian vision of humanity...
...sure, "the sanctity of the English sentence," is something few students discover, but a good literary education leads to other discoverers, wider in scope, among them the discovery that the works of great writers nourish the imagination and augment the wisdom of experience. Andy took courses under professors capable of giving such a literary education but none seems to have succeeded with...
...grains. Lien and her brothers quickly adapted to their new lifestyles because they were too delirious to do otherwise. Weak from overwork and malnutrition, they could only focus their attention on food and day-by-day survival. Together they conjured up imaginary servings, as if the words alone could nourish them. While a nearby campfire or a scent in the air triggered memories of childhood meals. Lien says she actually grew to believe: "If I have one good meal, I fall down on the ground and die happy...
...course, we must read contemporary authors just because they are contemporary, and because a few of them are important interpreters," said Bush "But we can renew and nourish our humanness much more fully by living with the writers of finer genius and insight who recognized both the littleness and the greatness of man Within our own small personal universe, we can call in the old world to redress the balance of the new," he added...