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Though 15 million copies of the NAB have been distributed, Social Philosopher Michael Novak sums up the view of many Catholics when he observes that the 1970 Bible has "the practicality of a fast-food outlet." But, he adds, "you miss the music." The most withering attack was mounted in a 1977 Commonweal article by John T. Noonan, then a University of California law professor and now a federal judge. He declared that American Catholics are "being impoverished" and demanded that the bishops ban the version and order up another...
Within the Administration, a war of backbiting leaks broke out. Early in the week, a Rowland Evans and Robert Novak column reported that Vice President George Bush had given a stern admonition to Secretary of State George Shultz, a public opponent of the Iranian arms sales, to support President Reagan or resign; the source was widely believed to be Don Regan. The Washington Post then reported that last November Shultz had protested to the President that Casey was about to give false testimony to a congressional committee. After a sharp confrontation, the Post said, Shultz got Casey's testimony changed...
with William Novak...
...baby-boom generation settles into respectable middle age, many of the trends associated with it are in decline: singles bars seem to be on the wane, promiscuity is becoming a fickle memory. The sexual revolution, which celebrated polymorphous diversity, ended with cruel jolts: first herpes, then AIDS. Says Michael Novak, a social philosopher at the American Enterprise Institute: "The coming theme for the liberal society is virtue and character. In its youth liberal society could claim that the sex shops on 42nd Street represented emancipation. Adulthood means learning to choose, and above...
...appeals judge, Scalia has been almost gratuitously antipress. He dissented from an opinion by his rival for the high court, Judge Bork, that threw out a suit by Bertell Ollman, a New York University professor who had been vilified as a Marxist by Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Bork held that the column was merely opinion and thus protected speech; Scalia argued that it was "a coolly crafted libel." In his 100-page dissent, Scalia wondered why columnists, "even with full knowledge of the falsity or recklessness of what they say, should be able to destroy private reputations...