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Balance & Consensus. Prot�g� of the austere Pius XII, close friend of the jovial John XXIII, Giovanni Battista Montim in the third year of his pontificate has slowly emerged from the shadow of his great predecessors with a style and program all his own. John was an intuitive, charismatic prophet who threw open the windows and doors of the church to let in fresh air without worrying about?or even fully understanding?the consequences. By contrast, Paul is a detached and painstakingly analytical technician who has left the windows open?but who keeps checking the thermometer lest any cold drafts...
...sake of greater Catholicity. But a disappointing council would be better than none, and there are many who feel that Paul may be doing what John could not do: ending the council without a serious split between the forces of renewal and reaction. John may have been the prophet who called the council, but Paul has the diplomatic and administrative skill to consolidate and institutionalize John's ideas. The task is not a glamorous one, and Paul may well go down in history under the title that was once thought to be John's: the interim Pope...
...Communists? Israelis? Not at all. Behind the whole thing was Egypt's powerful Moslem Brotherhood, an organization of religious fanatics who want to ban such modern immoralities as pictures of the human form, return to the laws of the Koran. Their aim: to set up a sort of Prophet's Republic, whose President would be declared caliph of the Moslem world...
...Brien is, for all his skill, essentially a back-room boy. The Great Society's architect and principal prophet has been, and will continue to be, Lyndon Johnson, and his extraordinary legislative record is 90% his own. The importance of O'Brien's 10% was demonstrated nonetheless by the fact that the entire Congress, Republicans as well as Democrats, had planned an unprecedented party to bid him farewell when-as he fully expected-he quit Washington this fall...
...celibate, Gibran nevertheless exerted a strong spiritual influence on women. A Manhattan jeweler's wife with whom he corresponded directed that his letters should be buried with her in her coffin. Barbara Young, a poet, swore allegiance to the master after hearing The Prophet read in a Greenwich Village church (he was also present as a listener). She served Gibran as secretary until his death from cancer...