Word: sheed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story. But an eight-minute fight cannot be spun out for more than a few chapters, and most of Shadow Box is more or less conventional, and excellent, sports reporting. The chapters on Muhammad Ali are delightful, and Ali is not easy to write about, as Wilfrid Sheed and Norman Mailer have amply proved...
This fall several nonfictional studies of the Ugandan dictator are to be published in the U.S. One, Idi Amin: Death-light of Africa (Little, Brown; $8.95), was written pseudonymously by a white civil servant who spent 20 years in Uganda; another, Idi Amin Dada: Hitler in Africa (Sheed Andrews and McMeel; $7.95), is by Thomas Patrick Melady, the last U.S. ambassador in Kampala, and his wife Margaret. In his short I Love Idi Amin (Fleming H. Revell; paperback, 95?), an African clergyman, Bishop Festo Kivengere, has written of the trials of the church and churchmen in Amin's Uganda...
...Night Stands. In the newly released book The Church and the Homosexual (Sheed Andrews and Mc-Meel), McNeill finds those teachings an intolerable burden. The Catholic Church advocates that a homosexual should try to become heterosexual and, if he fails, insists that he abstain from sex entirely because no homosexual act can be justified morally. McNeill maintains that such teaching results in "one-night stands" and "suffering, guilt and mental disorder." Instead, McNeill thinks the church should encourage "a mature homosexual relationship with one partner with the intention of fidelity," though he does not call this marriage...
...encyclical against "artificial" birth control. Disillusion over the encyclical, in fact, may have cost the American church more than $1 billion a year in contributions. That contention is part of a book by Andrew M. Greeley, William C. McCready and Kathleen McCourt: Catholic Schools in a Declining Church (Sheed & Ward, 483 pages; $15). In it Father Greeley, 48, a sociologist and acidulous Catholic columnist, declares that the birth control decree was "a shattering blow" to the loyalty of U.S. Catholics. He predicts that future scholars will adjudge it "one of the worst mistakes in the history of Catholic Christianity...
...Step and spent several days in the hospital on his rterun. An account of the misadventure, written with Washington Post Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman, appeared in Rolling Stone and will be published on April Fool's Day in expanded form as Tales from the Margaret Mead Taproom (Sheed & Ward...