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A Round of Beer. Cushing is an unlikely sort of cardinal to be encouraging the renewal of American Catholicism, but that is partly because he is an unlikely cardinal. He is the only life member of the N.A.A.C.P. who has publicly endorsed the aims of the John Birch Society. A...
The Pastoral Revolution. In earlier years, Cushing was in many ways conservative and narrow. In 1948 he denounced what he said was a conspiracy of "birth controllers, abortionists and mercy killers," and in 1949 he attacked Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State as "a refined...
But an instinct for renewal-first shown many years ago when he began visiting Protestant churches and Jewish synagogues-has always lived in Cushing, and Pope John gave it form. Partly because of his health and partly because "I can't understand the Latin," Cushing spent only three weeks...
Tossed in amidst sprouting red volcanoes, traffic lights, an orchestra, lightning, tricolored smoke, tankers, sail boats and quiet pastoral scenes stand 110 greats of the history of science. To make things less bewildering for the literate, Dufy labeled the figures. Originally he painted all of them - Archimedes, who once ran...
From the dangers of courtly dalliance to the simplicities of the pastoral life, from consuming jealousy to pristine love, from the tragedy of the young killed to the comedy of the young married, The Winter's Tale poses the problem of numerous dualities, most simply death and rebirth, so often...