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...biography of Buddha. In return Paul VI gave the Dalai Lama a pontifical medal and a book about his own trip to the Far East. The two parted beaming from a summit conference described by one Vatican watcher as "an encounter of the two Gospels," Christ's Sermon on the Mount and Buddha's Sermon on the Benares...
...hours after confirming Allin for a twelve-year term, the House of Deputies took up the proposal to ordain women-a move that Hines had vigorously endorsed in his opening sermon (Allin was opposed). Although a majority of deputies apparently favored the innovation, the complicated system of bloc voting by dioceses resulted in the measure's defeat. The Episcopal Women's Caucus reacted bitterly. "We have been turned down not by God," they said, "but by the Episcopal Church...
...mass mob assassination. The Mafiosi, portrayed with almost parodistic seriousness by the likes of Martin Balsam and Alfred Ryder, hire Viet Nam veterans to do their dirty work, a bit of practicality that also passes for covert social comment. The Stone Killer concludes in sober fashion with a sermon on evil, which, we are told, is pervasive and unavoidable. Rather like Charles Branson-Michael Winner movies, apparently...
When we last saw old, ornery Floyd Warner (in Wright Morris' last novel, Fire Sermon), he had just lost his present in the form of an orphaned and vaguely related child he was taking care of, and his past, in the form of a fire that consumed all the physical mementos of his family. In this book, now 82 and half-blind, he has not much of a future either−less than 48 hours as it turns out. But the book is called A Life, and in a sense it is just that−all that there...
When I started this, I promised myself it wouldn't turn into a sermon. I wanted you to think of me as good-humored. So I'll end with a funny story: I once took an economics class in which a student had a question which he immediately asked the teacher. The teacher told him that he'd better be quiet or she'd never call on him again...