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...just seemed more reverent," says Raymond Seitz, 68, who married into the middle- class parish in 1950 and is still smarting from the seismic Vatican II reforms of the early 1960s. "And when they started ending the Mass with this 'peace be with you' stuff, where you have to shake your neighbors' hands or kiss them, well, that didn't go over well at all." But at St. Gertrude's, the 10 a.m. Mass is downright stuffy compared with the alternative 10:30 Mass held each Sunday in the adjacent parish gymnasium. It features folk music and an open dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tale of One Parish | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...poll also found that on specific issues of welfare and immigration reform, there's not much support for the harshest measures. Fully 78% of those questioned thought the welfare system was in need of a fundamental shake-up, and 52% thought government should spend less on it. But 52% also said it would be unfair to end payments after two years to people who had no other sources of income -- 38% didn't mind the idea -- and majorities opposed denying welfare benefits to unwed teen mothers or to children whose fathers could not be identified. All of which are proposals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down on the Downtrodden | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...your right hand here, you put your left hand there. You put your sex organ here--and you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around--that's what it's all about...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Finally, Elders Fired | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

...think visions of another 7-1 game would shake the junior netminder...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: Cavicchi Stymies Crimson | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

...growing more powerful -- is a proposition not distant from the conclusions of Messrs. Herrnstein and Murray in The Bell Curve. In an America where all the genes of the world have settled and hope to succeed, the only way to justify open-ended affirmative action for blacks is to shake one's head and say, "Well, you know, we have to do this: African Americans are inherently inferior." Who would have thought the mind-set of a Kluxer would turn up as U.S. government policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cure for Racism | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

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