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...creed of the gerontologists is not John Donne's imaginative challenge-"Death, thou shalt die" -but "Death, thou shalt wait." Advances in control of infectious diseases, public-health measures, daring surgery and painstaking rehabilitation have combined to lengthen the overall U.S. life expectancy (at birth) from 47 years in 1900 to 69 today. Since life expectancy mounts as the hazards of successive age ranges are passed, a U.S. woman of 65 nowadays still has an average of 15 years ahead, and a man has 13. This...
...boxing sinful? Two Roman Catholic moralists are slugging it out over the issue, while Italy roots at the ringside. In the staid church fortnightly. Palestra del Clero, Jesuit Alfredo Boschi has been conducting a campaign against the sport as a violation of the commandment "Thou shalt not kill." "Professional boxing can not be justified from a moral viewpoint but must be condemned as something gravely illicit in itself," he wrote. "It not only produces but aims to produce serious injuries which can become permanent and can lead to death...
Shop Talk. In Great Bend, Kans., the Rev. Raymond Knowles improved parking conditions for himself and staff after he replaced "Reserved" and "No Parking" signs in the East Methodist Church's lot with signs reading: "Thou Shalt Not Park...
...Olympian binges, or gnawing a chicken wing, he seems like another Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. But behind the regal belch hides the lonely and fiercely honest old artist. He mercilessly paints Celia in a cage, an adolescent waif trapped behind the narrow bars of parental thou-shalt-nots. At novel's end, with Fatuncle's help, she has flown the coop to become a woman-her own woman. Author Hallinan has written a fine and pleasing novel, even if her prose is occasionally more breathless than deathless...
...leaders chimed in agreement, but the British press seemed to think otherwise. The idea was "startling" to the Daily Mail, which editorialized on its front page: "As Dr. Wand reminds us, forgiveness is a Christian virtue. But so is chastity ... We are told, in the Seventh Commandment, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' It does not say, 'Thou shall not commit adultery more than once.' Or more than twice . . . Is a single act of infidelity to be applied only to one sudden fall from grace, or also to an infatuation that may go on for weeks...