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...anniversary pronouncement, terms Augustine the "common father of our Christian civilization." Only a handful of thinkers have had equivalent influence over such a span of years. Yale Historian Jaroslav Pelikan observes in The Mystery of Continuity (University Press of Virginia, $14.95), a new work on the saint, that in each of the 16 centuries since his conversion, Augustine has been a "major intellectual, spiritual and cultural force." Even scholars who find the influence more bane than blessing grant the point...
...given is good music. More than 95% of his airtime is devoted to the classics. He does not waste precious minutes on "garbage," a category in which he includes news, weather, and the time, among many other things. At WVCA, Geller leads off a typical morning lineup with Camille Saint-Saens and Sergei Rachmaninoff back to back, followed by Richard Wagner. He has no knack for pedantry; it is enough to play the music. When a visitor asks the name of a piece, he replies, "That's a piano concerto by Bronsart, who you probably never heard...
...just what one would expect. Gold- plated lavatory fixtures. A kitchen on every floor. Three pianos and a harpsichord. Eighteen lace-covered pillows on the First Lady's richly canopied bed. Heroic ten-foot paintings of Marcos as a medal-bedecked leader and Imelda as a latter-day saint. A strobe-lighted and mirrored disco, outfitted with cushions bearing the mottoes of the Marcos millions. Example: "To be rich is no longer a sin, it's a miracle...
...course, the father's (or mother's) yearning for a son is so intense that the girl is called Howard anyway. Some nations feel obliged to intervene against such eccentricities. In France, it is illegal to give any child a name that is not already held by a saint (or a "well-known figure in ancient history"), who presumably would watch over the protege. The courts specifically forbade one couple to name their child Cerise (Cherry). In the U.S., by contrast, the Navy once got applications from half a dozen brothers who all bore names like Measles Jones and Pneumonia...
Every year the people of Vitoria, a Basque community in northern Spain, celebrate the fiestas of the Virgen Blanca, the city's patron saint. Last week the annual merrymaking was disrupted when about 1,000 youths who had been drinking at fiesta street bars began chanting slogans in support of the Basque terrorist organization ETA. The demonstration soon developed into a riot in which 48 people, including ten police, were injured and tens of thousands of dollars in damage was done to public buildings...