Word: sirs
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...ordination of women, for example, to a "forum" of four Catholic converts, two of them priests, and prints their answers at length. On a more theoretical problem--how hell and eternal punishment are compatible with God's mercy--he cribs copiously from Difficulties (1934), an exchange of letters between Sir Arnold Lunn and Father Ronald Knox. Lunn, who invented skiing's slalom, was then an agnostic--he later converted--and Knox a famous Catholic apologist. Most readers will have to take on faith Buckley's assertion that this out-of-print tome has not been fatally "anachronized...
Excuse us, sir, the Dalai Lama is not a name but a title. Thus, the intellectual dimension and self-justification of the protest end right there. Tell us, seriously, what do you know about Tibet? (You are not thinking that all Tibetans are monks, are you?) Or, for that matter, China. (You are not thinking that all Chinese are red communists...
...tunes and crisp discipline that marked McCartney's collaborations with John Lennon. But then McCartney's post-Abbey Road pop output has also been notable mainly for its vacuity. The cash flow produced by such perennials as Yesterday (recorded to date by more than 2,200 artists) ensures that Sir Paul's great-grandchildren will never wonder where their next BMW is coming from, but it has also relieved him of the need to make new music vital enough to seize and hold the attention of contemporary listeners. Perhaps that is why, 30 years after Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts...
...legit can an aging rocker get? At 55, Sir Paul McCartney seems determined to find out. Standing Stone, his second voyage into the deep waters of classical music, is a four-movement symphonic poem in which McCartney endeavors to suggest "the way Celtic man might have wondered about the origins of life and the mystery of human existence." The CD version, recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, shot right to the top of Billboard's classical chart...
...former Beatle isn't the only rock musician currently trying his hand at classical composition--Billy Joel announced in September that his plans include not only working on Broadway but also composing Rachmaninoff-like solo piano pieces--but Sir Paul sweeps the table when it comes to sheer audaciousness. McCartney, who cannot read music and readily confesses to having attended only a handful of classical concerts, has been no less forthright in acknowledging the extensive role played by four "musical associates." Jazz musician Steve Lodder and classical composer David Matthews transcribed and edited his original computerized keyboard noodlings; classical saxophonist...