Word: sheed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unusual item in their mail this week: a 300-page book containing "dossiers" on all 116, who some day will enter a conclave and, from among their ranks, elect the next Pope. The book, The Inner Elite: Dossiers of Papal Candidates ($12.95), is but the beginning. The publisher, Sheed Andrews & McMeel, is also putting out a cheeky monthly newsletter, Conclave Confidential, which for $30 a year offers the latest scuttlebutt on papal "candidates" and Vatican politicking. Next to come: computerized game plans on ways the conclave might develop...
James Andrews, chairman of Sheed, dreamed up the project two years ago and put the dossier book in the capable hands of Author Gary MacEoin, who edited reports from 100 tipsters in many nations...
...bottom, is not entirely guilty, since he did not begin history; nor entirely innocent, since he continues it." Nor, despite lifelong claims and yearnings, was Camus a true philosopher, with an organized system of thought. But he is frequently something more valuable: a reliable witness. Observes Critic Wilfrid Sheed: "Like Thomas Aquinas, who 'saw' something just before his death that made all his writings seem like straw," men like Albert Camus "seem to have 'seen something' which makes a good deal, anyway, seem like straw . . . What they had seen was terrorism, and it made even literature...
Transatlantic Blues, Wilfrid Sheed...
...Transatlantic Blues. Wilfrid Sheed...