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...things that generally just aren't what they once used to be. Celia, a childless, tired woman, her hair--as described by her own mother--a gaudy "change-of-life red," tries to force the conversation to include herself. She gossips about the neighbors, laments the marriage of the parish priest, tells of her failed attempt to break into the movies, in desperation reveals the details of two previous nervous breakdowns. She then goes through her old dance routine ("Hollywood and Vine" is the name of the song) to her husband's embarrassed outrage ("If you can't act civilized...
...Even as a young parish priest, Mindszenty was no stranger to jails: he was imprisoned for his outspoken opposition to the short-lived Communist takeover of Bela Kun in 1919. His rise in the Catholic hierarchy was a reward for his unflinching loyalty to the church and the people of Hungary, both of which he defended against a grim succession of political tyrannies. During World War II. he fearlessly denounced the Nazis and aided Hungarian Jews; finally, in 1944, Hungary's Fascist regime imprisoned him. After the war, by then a Cardinal and the nation's highest-ranking...
...range of quality in American prisons is wide. At Louisiana's scabrous New Orleans Parish Prison, six men at a time are crammed into a 71-ft. by 14-ft. cell. Most are unsentenced prisoners awaiting trial. They exercise one hour every week and spend much of the rest of their time fighting off roaches, rats and homosexual rapists. "A good day," says one prisoner, "is when I get up, have three squares and don't get wounded or raped...
Jack Lynch was born in Cork in an age when peat, potatoes and parish priests meant Ireland. They are still valid symbols, and the country still feels the effects of the terrible potato famine of 1846-48, emigration and a low birth rate. Just before the famine, its population was 8,000,000; now it is 3,000,000. But today's Eire is also a land that produces electronics equipment, Pharmaceuticals and plastics, one where 500 factories have been built in the past decade...
...country designed expressly for homosexuals (estimated total membership: 1,200). A second denomination for homosexuals, the American Orthodox Church* began public services just a year ago with its first congregation, the Church of the Beloved Disciple in Manhattan. Boasting 600 New York City members, the AOC now plans parishes in Tucson, Ariz., and Milwaukee. It has even started its own religious order, called the Oblate Companions of St. John. The order's first three members, two women and a man, will help run the Manhattan parish. So far, the order has no vows...