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...urging of President Reagan, Congress is presently flirting with the line-item veto--the cure, we are told, to all our budgetary woes. It appears, after all, to be a simple remedy to a complex problem. As deficits continue and as budget deadlocks seem to recur annually, congressmen from both parties are starting to wave their hands, yearning for the White House to assume an additional power--and take away from them a frightful responsibility...
...victims. He spoke of the need "to put an , end to this mad race toward violence." Then, as more than 100 relatives of the dead tearfully filed past the coffins covered with flowers, three priests gave their blessings. Unless ways are found to ensure that such tragedies do not recur, those flowers could become a memorial for European soccer itself...
Meeting with Venezuela's bishops that evening, John Paul issued decisive marching orders. He called upon the region's hierarchy to correct errant Catholic thinkers "with charity and firmness." Too many theologians, said the Pope, "proclaim not the truth of Christ but their own theories," a theme that may recur during the current journey. By the end of his 18,500- mile trip, John Paul will have flown from Venezuela to Ecuador to Peru to Trinidad and Tobago, delivered 44 other speeches, lunched with steelworkers, met upcountry Indians and visited a sector of Peru rife with Maoist guerrillas...
Finally, I cannot resist a word in defense of the dirty-minded men of Pi Eta. Once made public, their words and thoughts must be condemned. But does anyone doubt that such thoughts will recur in young male minds? (And--equity demands--that complementary thoughts may occur in young female minds?) It is desirable to try to make all who think such thoughts feel guilt, a dangerous emotion? Surely, no one proposes action to prevent students from privately discussing such things? Did not the real fault in that incident lie with those who, stumbling accidently on what was clearly...
...ideas of dislocation in time and isolation in society recur throughout the book. The first story, "Everybody watching and the time passing Like That." Pivots around the moment suspended in time, when the drama teacher is told of James Dean's death. For a sixteen-year-old working for the summer in a historically reconstructed fort. "It is always the summer of 1816." The fraternity housemother spends her life surrounded by young men of unvarying...