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Hoving is neither. His flair, intelligence and energy are plain to see, as is his fascination with plots and grand gestures. But his actions proclaim a man who thinks that the Met is a fief. When euphoric, Hoving will say that the museum belongs to all the people of New York - and mean it. When defensive, he adduces the strictly legal truth that it is a private corporation whose contents belong to the trustees and no one else - and means that too. Both and neither are right; in the end it is the public that pays for tax-deductible gifts...
...arranged abortions because "we believe it is our duty to help women." The doctors realize that their admission makes them liable to punishment under France's archaic law prohibiting abortion except to save a woman's life. But they are undeterred. "We will stand trial together," they proclaim defiantly...
...belligerency of the brass-collar Americans. It could instead produce a new sense of reality. What is needed is a civilian DMZ, where the polarized Americans can gather, a place somewhere be tween the moral amnesia of those who would totally forget the war and those who proclaim a perpetual, self-lacerating mea culpa that would take the place of progress. Perhaps this war has bro ken the rules of history. No one can be sure. It can only be observed that in other times, in other wars, the American soul has been marked missing in action, only to return...
...believers are young and old, longtime Apocalypse buffs and recent converts. The newer ones include many members of the Jesus Movement. Bumper stickers (GUESS WHO'S COMING AGAIN!) proclaim Christ's return. Jesus rock bands throb with it. A small shelf of luridly written, fiercely dogmatic books purport to document and explain it. The Second Coming Bible, a warmed-over 1924 chestnut, has sold 50,000 copies since August; The Beginning of the End has sold 81,000 since March. Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth, a compendium of apocalyptic prophecies, has sold more than...
...Revelation. To followers of Lindsey, this sounds ominously like the Common Market, even though it is not yet under the aegis of Rome. Israel will sign a pact with Rome, but the universally hailed Roman leader will turn out to be Antichrist and show up in Jerusalem to proclaim himself God. Lindsey's scenario goes on to forecast that Egypt, leading an Arab-African alliance, will attack Israel, and the Soviet Union, the "king of the north" mentioned in Daniel 11:40, will enter the act. The final conflict, of course, will be Armageddon (Revelation 19), and Christ will...