Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Thursday, after a two-month stint as an associate fellow of the Center for International Affairs, Hume returned to his wife and five children and the same Catholic section of Derry where he was raised. Northern Ireland remains a violence-charged tragedy, where extremist Catholic and Protestant gunmen roam...
Hume says he believes most Americans view the Ulster conflict as a "religious war," even though the dispute has little to do with theological values. Rather, he argues, it is a dispute centering on a nationalistic and political cleavage dating back hundreds of years, a cleavage with which the religious...
Hume describes a feud based on random, vendetta killings. "Many, many innocent people have been killed," he says. "There's a tit-for-tat campaign of sectarian murder, where randomly chosen Catholics and Protestants are killed by the violent groups, simply because of their religion and for no other reason...
For Persons of the Year I nominate the hundreds of courageous women (both Catholic and Protestant) of Northern Ireland.
In a peculiar way, Summer and Smoke's original weakness was its strength. It posed a diagrammatic, didactic confrontation between Alma Winemiller, representing Soul (alma is the Spanish word for soul), and John Buchanan Jr., the hell-raising son of the doctor next door, representing Body. In its somewhat...