Word: religion
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...mostly Catholic) schools of Ireland, the poor treatment of orphans, the collusion between Irish missionaries and Irish businessmen in poor countries. But what finally comes through in reading several of these poems is a deep commitment to the people of his country and a hatred of the hypocrisies of religion as it is still practiced in Ireland today. His later poetry suffers from its topicality, and it will probably not endure the tests of time and place, but somehow Clarke almost manages to convince us that universal themes of passion and sacrifice, of doubt and insincerity, can be rooted...
Last week terror was added to the growing pressure from the left; an unidentified assailant tossed a hand grenade into a car full of rightist politicians and Chinese businessmen. Among the three killed was former Minister of Religion Boun Om, brother of the warlord of southern Laos, whose name is Boun Oum, and uncle of Sisouk na Champassak, the powerful Minister of Defense, who was among those that resigned. It was the first assassination of a rightist political figure since the ceasefire, and has unsettled many leading rightists. They now fear for their own and their families' safety; Boun...
...converted by the deep-throated roar of a motorcycle. Many middle-aged men take up cycling -as Hess did in 1965. Mostly what they get is kidney trouble, pavement burns and a chance to act out a few fantasies. As Hess tells it in Dear America, he got secular religion. The need to repair the machines he wrecked led him to welding and, finally, to working as a welder of trucks and construction equipment. "It was there, under trucks, inside buckets, working hard," he writes, "that I faced the final contradictions, the ones that ended any hope of anything...
Died. JÓzsef Cardinal Mindszenty, 83, Primate of Hungary (1945-74) and symbol of the cold war's intractable conflicts; of a heart attack; in Vienna (see RELIGION...
...International Olympic Committee (1952-72); of a heart attack; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. A 1912 U.S. Olympic track competitor and later self-made millionaire in construction, Brundage became the most powerful figure in international amateur sport as head of the I.O.C. Viewing the Olympics as a "20th century religion" free of "injustice of caste, race, family or wealth," Brundage autocratically, ruthlessly and sometimes pettily railed against "commercialism" in sport, upholding an increasingly elusive ideal of amateurism and several times axing popular athletes for minor infringements...