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Daniel Berrigan, radical Jesuit priest, on the declining state of civil disobedience: "When we get locked up now, there's a sigh of ennui...
...meant a painstaking ascension to the Fleet Street pantheon as editor of Punch. Wilfred, the third-born son, chose a different sort of test. An Edwardian dandy who wore silk ties from London's Burlington Arcade, he took a vow of poverty as a workingman's Anglican priest...
...certain air to the Irish pub that sets it apart: the creaminess of the stout, the smokiness of the wooden bar, the perfectly spherical physique of the bartenders. But most of all there is the conversation, which ranges from Joyce to the IRA, to the sermon that new priest had the nerve to preach last Sunday, but, by the fourth beer, always settles down to Sports...
Besides being addicted to morphine -drug abuse is a serious criminal offense in Belgium-Sister Godfrida was reputed to have carried on sexual relationships simultaneously with a retired missionary priest and with another nun who taught school in Wetteren. Her affairs were kept out of the public eye, but other members of her community knew about them. She and the teaching nun shared an expensively decorated apartment near the hospital. They frequently dined out together in the best restaurants; at other times, merchants recalled, they had expensive cuts of meat, fresh seafood and vintage wines delivered to their apartment. Sister...
This double-edged aspect of the CB revolution is the subject of Jonathan Demme's film, Handle With Care. In this movie, Demme sketches life in a small-town American community whose inhabitants share a fascination with CB. Employed equally well by a nihilistic Nazi, a proselytizing priest and a wizened whore, the radio connects persons of different vocations and avocations. Within the framework of CB, Demme and his script writer, Paul Brickman, weave a colorful but ultimately threadbare tapestry of rural America, in which the CB substitutes for drab reality. By showing the murky side of CB broadcasts, Demme...