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Against those theologians who argue that democracy tends to fall prey to moral relativism by not exalting a unified vision of "the good," Novak responds that pluralism, which is the respect for each individual's own personal goals, allows mankind to realize a greater moral vision. Against those who argue that capitalism is based on selfish materialism, he responds that it tends to expand the wealth of all citizens by providing incentives for productivity. The marriage of pluralism and productivity best realizes the Christian ideal of caritas, or the compassionate love of fellow human beings...
Feliks, the son of a poor country priest elects to assassinate Prince Orlov. The "anarchist chappie," as he is called, moves close to his prey by captivating the susceptible Lady Charlotte, the earl's young daughter. Follett makes good use of a taut if predictable double subplot to forward Feliks' machinations and throw Cabinets, kings and boudoirs into turmoil. The denouement, in which all the major characters and half the British constabulary descend on Walden Hall for the signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively...
CLEARLY THE GREAT DEBATE is upon us. No longer the exclusive prey of physicists, the issue of the world's ever-increasing nuclear arsenal has captured the hearts--and minds--of America. The give-and-take started in Vermont, where 161 towns so far this year have endorsed a nuclear freeze. It continued when the New Yorker published in three successive issues Jonathan Schell's apocalyptic The Fate of the Earth. It escalated when The New Republic responded to Schell by featuring a piece "in defense of deterrence." It spread further with a Newsweek cover story. And it evolved...
...border on the shrill, shortchanging the "moments of truth" that must descend on a king who has fought to build a near-imperial England and-now sees his grown sons gathered vulture-like to tear it apart. Amid all the yelling his passions provoke, his sons and enemies fall prey occasionally to the same overexcitement. The result is sort of a continuous rushing into the breach, a heroic rattling through brilliant language rather than feeling, creating a nagging sense that one has no time to catch the real Henry, the real Eleanor...
...story of a writer who commits suicide. Anyone expecting a letdown from Cradle's shuttering close should be not only pleasantly surprised but downright rolled up by a play that is satisfyingly complex and refreshingly free of the problems to which first plays by undergraduates are liable to fall prey...