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...Navy in a bloody-minded show of force. The author does not argue that Tlingit culture before the coming of white men was noble (arguing is not his style), but clearly it was strong and coherent. Now in Angoon, after successive incursions by Russian fishermen, the Navy, Stateside Presbyterian missionaries of ineffable arrogance, and present-day loggers, pickup-truck sellers and fish-and-game regulators, it is weak and probably dying...
...among other accomplishments, had been a wartime spy master for the OSS. Clare's lovers, according to the author, included financier Bernard Baruch, Sir Winston Churchill's son Randolph and others (as the saying goes) too numerous to mention. Martin portrays Harry as a reluctant adulterer, consumed with Presbyterian guilt, who sought from other women the kind of feminine solace Clare could not or would not give. Clare, by contrast, is limned as a dazzling but neurotic conniver for whom sex was primarily a way to keep men at her feet...
...student loans. A few of the doctors are retired. The pay is comparable with that offered to entry- level emergency room attendants (about $40 an hour), and the work, some feel, is more rewarding. Says Dr. Neil Stollman, 28, a senior resident in internal medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center who has manned the phones on and off for Kovachevich since June: "In the emergency room, I would often get this kind of call. Just a simple question. But meanwhile two people are dying. I just didn't have time to talk. This gives me the opportunity to focus...
...line with trends in other mainline denominations, the Presbyterian report asked church members to repeal legislation from the 1970s that bars sexually active gays and lesbians from the clergy. That too was rejected. Nonetheless, the assembly may have reflected the extent to which the sexual revolution has infiltrated the ranks by refusing to include in its final resolutions a clause that condemned all intercourse outside marriage as "not in conformity with God's will...
...backed traditional morals more ardently than the Roman Catholic Church, particularly under Pope John Paul II. But within the U.S. branch of the church, there are stirrings nonetheless. The most unorthodox to date was a 1977 study commissioned by the Catholic Theological Society of America. Like this year's Presbyterian panel, the Catholic thinkers who took part declared there could be instances in which homosexual, premarital and unwed sex were moral. The group was even unwilling to outlaw adultery flatly, though it urged "extreme caution" for priests who face the issue. The views flew in the face of Vatican pronouncements...