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...Problematic." Elevated to the papacy when he was nearly 77, John XXIII was "servant of the servants of God" less than five years-the shortest reign since the obscure Pius VIII, who ruled for 20 ailing months after his election in 1829. But far from being the caretaker that the church expected, John created an atmosphere in which, says Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, "a lot of things came unstuck -old patterns of thought, behavior, feeling. They were not challenged or refuted, but just sort of dropped...
Lazarillo. It can hardly be called a novel: its title, La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus for tunas y adversidades, is almost as long as the shortest of its seven short chapters. And nobody knows who wrote it: the author modestly preferred anonymity to martyrdom. Nevertheless, Lazarillo made a decisive impact on European life and letters. Published in 1554, it was greeted with a loud...
...depressed area in 56 of its 67 counties, William Warren Scranton, 45, attempted to bring some austerity to Pennsylvania's traditionally gaudy inauguration ceremonies. He showed up wearing a business suit rather than the usual cutaway, held the inaugural parade down to a mere three hours, gave the shortest inaugural address oldtimers could remember. But after eight years on the outside, Pennsylvania Republicans could not resist turning Bill Scranton's inauguration into a proper wingding...
Hungry for an election that he is confident would make him Prime Minister. Liberal Leader Lester Pearson led off with the longest speech of his parliamentary career (three hours and five minutes) and closed it with the shortest (18 words) no-confidence motion in Parliament's history. He accused the Conservatives of "a major political fraud" in hiding last June's critical run on Canada's foreign-exchange reserves until the election was safely over, indicted the government's tight-money austerity program as the wrong cure for the country's economic ailments. Diefenbaker retorted...
...recession strikes so soon, the current recovery will prove to be the shortest as well as the shallowest since the war. But there is one consolation: most economists reckon that, whenever it comes, the next recession will be one of the mildest ever, because the economy has not built up big enough for a hard fall...