Word: politicism
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Hardly. Each mayor figures that he really is making a difference. Ted Crozier has shaken up the police department; he has even got his 92-man police force to jog it self into shape. Richard Verbic of Elgin, Ill., a dentist, boasts of completing an other kind of bridge - a...
He is an impassioned banjoist, a nimbly authoritative clog dancer, a soulful singer of folk music and an enthralling tall-tale raconteur. He gyrates to the pipes of Pan. He is making his theatrical debut in Chicago's Body Politic Theater, in an evening of intimate, unmarred intensity.
The Pope's skill with crowds and affection for people, however politic they appear, seem to be more a matter of character than of calculation. John Paul appears almost driven to be out among his flock. "This Pope is not a workaholic; he's a live-aholic," observes...
Despite these new forms of support, gays still often feel isolated and persecuted. There are now three homosexual bathhouses in Milwaukee, a sign in a way of how far the movement has come. But there has been a price to pay: since last year, police have arrested 36 men on...
Wills, 44, is not an uncomplicated man. He is a Jesuit-trained classics scholar, historian, teacher and journalist with one of the most supple intellects now wrapped around the body politic.