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...clipped. Percy, it seems, has an aversion to that durable punctuation standard, the quotation mark, and so throughout his novel its's difficult to follow who's saying what. Furthermore, he's acquired the annoying mannerism of changing speaker without warning or using the same pronoun successively to refer to different people. There are passages that becomes completely unintelligible...
...clipped. Percy, it seems, has an aversion to that durable punctuation standard, the quotation mark, and so throughout his novel its's difficult to follow who's saying what. Furthermore, he's acquired the annoying mannerism of changing speaker without warning or using the same pronoun successively to refer to different people. There are passages that becomes completely unintelligible...
...mean has yet to be worked out. To some the phrase seemed to hint at their retaining the use of the 1928 Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Vatican sources told TIME, however, that the Book of Common Prayer could "scarcely be used in the Mass." But the concession might refer to such services as morning and evening prayer, which are not part of regular worship for Roman Catholic laymen. Historically, the church has permitted exceptions to the Roman rite of the Mass when they derive from traditions of great richness and antiquity...
...physician advertising, a move ordered by the Federal Trade Commission. The old phrase directing doctors "not [to] solicit patients" was eliminated. So was the injunction against associating professionally with anyone who does not practice a "method of healing founded on a scientific basis." That leaves physicians free to refer patients to, as well as receive patients from, chiropractors, acupuncturists, herbalists, even faith healers. Says Todd: "Chiropractors are licensed in 50 states. We may not like them, but they are there...
...frustrations. As one example, they note that many of the 1,600 buses the U.S. provided for Egypt's chaotic transport system two years ago have broken down, either through bad maintenance or overloading; some arrived in Egypt without mufflers and produced a grating roar that Cairenes cynically refer to as the "voice of America." U.S. military officials are also concerned about the ability of Egypt's armed forces-considered the best in the Arab world-to cope with the complex U.S. weaponry that will replace the country's aging Soviet guns and tanks. Some U.S. diplomats...