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...hills of Galilee, the U.S. and the Soviet Union worked in tandem to avoid a catastrophic confrontation. With a Middle East cease-fire in effect and the superpowers back from the brink, the Big Two have arrived at a definitive new crossroads in world affairs. Will they revert to the arid pattern of cold-war contentiousness, or will they make a concerted effort to shape new agreements not only on the Middle East but also on a whole panoply of world problems...
...byword for zealous efficiency and formal perfection." Discover new prophets of "modest, humane disposition," like Jesus and Confucius. Establish new routines, such as the Hebrew Sabbath that "found a way of obstructing the megamachine and challenging its inflated claims." Abandon the modern constitutional equivalents of ancient kingships and revert to Neolithic culture. In other words, Mumford would perfect man with weaving, pottery and thatched-village anarchy...
...King followed his subjects' example and went along with the new government in hopes of directing it to a more moderate course. "Greece has gone through very hard trials recently," he said in his first meeting with the new Cabinet. "It is my fervent wish that the country revert to parliamentary government as soon as possible." When he appeared at midnight Mass in Athens to mark the Orthodox Easter, the crowds applauded...
...permissible within 40 days of conception for a male fetus and 80 days for a female.* Sixtus banned all abortions, but was reversed in the year after his death by Gregory XIV, who declared abortion illegal only after the fetus quickens. Not until 1869, said Lamm, did Pius IX revert the church to the position of Sixtus V. Lamm urged Catholics to follow the lead of Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, and not ask for secular law to enforce church doctrine. At the last minute, Lamm and his colleagues accepted an amendment that exempts any hospital employee from aiding...
...revert to a smaller staff...