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...capitalism is as clear and simple as the plot of an old morality play. Everything and everyone, except the victims, is for sale; all social transactions, except the class solidarity of workers, are poisoned at the root; the world is run by four breeds of pig: capitalist, officer, priest and whore. Such are the ingredients of caricature, but Grosz, especially in his early postwar work like Gray Day (State Functionary for the War Wounded), 1921, extracted a mean, indignant poetry from them...
Hans Kung, a Roman Catholic priest and prominent liberal theologian banned by the Vatican a year ago from teaching in Catholic institutions, will speak at Memorial Church next Wednesday...
...last Sunday before two hotly contested primary elections in Massachusetts. At Roman Catholic Masses in the Boston area, priests pulled out a letter written by the local archbishop, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, warning worshipers that anyone voting for a politician favoring abortion would incur some of the guilt for "this horrendous crime and deadly sin." The unnamed targets: pro-choice Congressional Candidates Barney Frank and James Shannon. The letter caused bitter debate about whether the church had improperly taken a hand in partisan politics, a frequent question throughout the U.S. during this election year. In April, for instance, a South Dakota...
...known as reality programming. These shows offer viewers, by means of minicams, glimpses of real events and people. The cameras of That's Incredible! have dwelt on a man tied by his heels and hanging over a pool of sharks, a woman covered with bees, a miracle-working priest, a one-legged football star and a professor who pours acid over his hands. An NBC version of That's Incredible!, called Games People Play, has sent crews around the country to film folks engaged in such competitions as women's arm wrestling and belly bucking, in which...
...survival manual for economic disaster was riding atop the bestseller lists. Its title: Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression (Stratford Press; $12.50). The book has already sold approximately 150,000 copies and turned its author, Douglas R. Casey, 34, into the newest high priest of financial gloom and doom...