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DIED. Barnard Hughes, 90, intuitive character actor who portrayed warm, often flawed father figures; in New York City. His filmography includes movies as varied as Midnight Cowboy and Sister Act 2, and he made memorable guest appearances on hit TV shows of the '70s (a Roman Catholic priest on All in the Family; an eccentric judge on Lou Grant, for which he won an Emmy). But he was best known for his stage work, in particular his moving turn as a poor gardener who, having just died, haunts his foster son in the 1978 Broadway hit Da. The role...
...typically Self-made. In the year 523 A.D. (Anno Dave, that is), on the isle of Ham, the onetime London district of Hampstead, six family clans eke out a hard, bucolic living. The Hamsters adhere to the ancient Davine scriptures, learning his "runs" by rote from the local priest, or Driver. They speak in Mokni, a transliterated mix of cockney, mobile text speak and the misunderstood vocabulary of cabbie Dave. Thus, they greet one another with "Ware2, guv," the night sky becomes the "dashboard," unmarried women are "opares" and every hot meal is a "curry." Peaceful normality reigns until...
...Saigon, South Vietnam June 21, 1963 The automobile at the head of the procession of saffron-robed Buddhist monks [protesting their oppression] in Saigon suddenly choked to a stop at an intersection. The occupants of the car lifted its hood as chanting priests began forming a circle seven or eight deep around the vehicle. Prayer beads in his hand, a phlegmatic, 73-year-old monk named Thich Quang Duc sat down cross-legged in the center of the circle. From under the auto's hood, a monk took a canister of gasoline and poured it over the old priest...
...definition the changes are in tone rather than content. Yet to some the tone is of a record running backwards, towards a linguistic stiltedness that will discourage rather than invite Catholics to think about what they are saying. One of the most prominent switches is from the exchange between priest and congregation: "The Lord be with you." "And also with you." In the new version it reads, "The Lord be with you." "And with your spirit." Says Fr. James Martin, an editor at the Jesuit weekly America who also celebrates weekly Mass at a Manhattan church, "When...
...witnessed first-hand the violence and repression that SOA graduates use to govern," recounted Father Roy Bourgeios, founder of the 16-year-old organization dedicated to closing the institution, during an interview in his old home of Bolivia. An ex-U.S. Marine, Bourgeios lived as a Maryknoll priest in South America's poorest country during the dictatorship of SOA graduate Hugo Banzer in the 1970s. Bourgeois hopes to make more governments see that WHINSEC has become an anachronism, a relic of the U.S.'s big-stick foreign policy in Latin America. "A school that has no students," he says...