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...reaction of our community is--on the whole I think it's quite favorable," Father Jose Ferrera, a priest at St. Anthony's Church on Portland Street, said last night. "They greeted me in the morning and said, 'Congratulations...
...only possible apocalypse and that revolution failed. So the town moves from one false apocalypse to another, and the epic tragedy of One Hundred Years of Solitude degenerates into comedy. Instead of the promised return of the magician Melquiades, who brought the first ice to Macondo, the senile priest decries the reappearance of the Wandering Jew--a bewildered adolescent who is the first visitor in 20 years to stay overnight in Macondo's only hotel. At last the promised end becomes pure satire at the conclusion of No One Writes to the Colonel...
...each other, pausing only to draw breath. A nanny waddles past, pushing a baby carriage and cooing at the unseen inhabitant, while an agonized dog-owner watches his best friend lift its leg over the ankles of a policeman. Gradually the park begins to throb with activity: a priest, a balloon man, a pair of lovers, a mother dragging two children at the end of either arm. More than a dozen characters seem to people the stage, although there is only one man up there. He is all of them. He is Marcel Marceau...
...Thomas Aquinas was the darling of Roman Catholic thought, a man so revered that he was the only philosopher actually named in the church's 1918 code of canon law. The code declared that his "method, doctrine and principles" were to be the foundation of every priest's philosophical and theological training. Brilliant Neo-Thomists like the French philosophers Jacques Maritain and Etienne Gilson had given Thomism a modern relevance. University of Chicago Philosopher Mortimer (The Great Books) Adler considered Aquinas to be one of the foremost molders of Western thought. In many Roman Catholic colleges, students...
Harry Caul, an electronic eavesdropper, for once lets someone listen to him. In the confessional he says to the priest, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I have taken newspapers from their racks without paying. I've deliberately taken pleasure in impure thoughts." Then, in a great, garbled rush of feeling, he admits that he is involved in "some work"-work that may bring harm to a couple of young people. He does not wait for the priest to absolve him, however. He just mutters that he will be "in no way responsible...